I have, since getting in to photography had many inspirations.
When I started my degree I was consumed by images , I would find myself lost for ages in the library not doing what I was suppose to, but surfing the books of photographers.
The first to stop me in my tracks was Nadav Kander. A series of images taken at night of motorways and flyovers, on the surface it does not sound like this is anything new.
But as I would discover there is a certain tension in Kander’s work that is trance like state.
It made me stare, it made me ask questions, his nude work is also very powerful.
Not only for its technique layered but for the fact that many of the images are of old people and not the conventional images of beauty. Although Nadav Kander has been able to portray that with cutting edge.
The portrait of David Beckham was like no other celebrity portrait I had seen up until then, for me it sums up the photographer’s identity.
Firstly there is movement and the face of Beckham is distorted also it is photograph very dark with a black background and a blue\green splash of light (which is a trademark of he’s) makes me think of moonlight and there are many examples of this in Kander’s portfolio.
He has shown me another way of looking at the portrait gene in many of he's works there is
Something is in flux, something is about to happen or has?
The uneasy the in-between is for me what Nadav Kander does best and that is what inspired me then and still does with he’s work
