Prix Pictet Presents: Nadav Kander in conversation with Francis Hodgson

Nanjing IX, Jiangsu Provence, 2007 © Nadav Kander. Courtesy Flowers Gallery

Saturday 17, 2pm

Prix Pictet Presents:

Prix Pictet Earth laureate Nadav Kander is reunited with the award’s co-founder Francis Hodgson for a discussion around Kander’s artistic career and practice.

This is an unticketed talk with limited seating capacity. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Nadav Kander lives and works in London. Selected past projects include Yangtze – The Long River, winner of the Prix Pictet award in 2009; Dust, which explored the vestiges of the Cold War through the radioactive ruins of secret cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia; Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man, a series of monumental photographic figure studies drawing references from Renaissance sculpture; Dark Line – The Thames Estuary, a reflective exploration of the dark waters of the UK’s storied Thames river; and Obama’s People, an acclaimed 52 portrait series commissioned by the New York Times Magazine. In 2019, Steidl published The Meeting, Kander’s first monograph dedicated to his portraiture.

Kander’s work is housed in several public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; The New York Public Library, USA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA; Marta Herford Museum, Germany; Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, USA; The Frank-Suss Collection, London, New York and Hong Kong; and Statoil Collection, Norway. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Weserburg Museum, Germany; Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA; Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, Germany; the Barbican Centre, London, UK; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; Somerset House, London, UK and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Recent fellowships and awards include an Honorary Fellowship Award from the Royal Photographic society, Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from Sony World Photography Awards and the Hendrik teNeues Distinguished Photographer Award.

 

Francis Hodgson is Professor in the Culture of Photography at the University of Brighton, having established himself as a critical writer on photography. Hodgson was for some years the writer on photography for the Financial Times, having previously been a frequent contributor both to the broadsheet and the specialised press on the subject. Hodgson has separately held a number of senior posts in businesses centred upon the photograph: he has been the Head of the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s auction house and creative director of Photonica and Image Source (both large commercial photo-libraries).

In the past, Hodgson has run a number of specialised galleries in photography, including the Print Room of The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Zwemmer Fine Photographs. He was also a founding senior vice president in charge of content at the trail-blazing online art gallery Eyestorm. Hodgson’s career has the quality (rare among specialists in photography) of being shared equally between the commercial and cultural aspects of the field.

Hodgson is a co-founder of the leading photography prize the Prix Pictet (on which he has twice served as chairman of the panel of judges). He has also been the chairman of judges on the Sony World Photography Awards, judged the Jerwood Awards, D&AD, British Journal of Photography Awards and AoP awards among others.