EXPOSURE – The twelfth edition of the Portrait(s) festival honors the British artist recognized as one of the great portraitists of his time.
Special envoy to Vichy (Allier)
“The most fascinating aspect of portrait photography is being able to make your model a god or a demon, every human being having at least a little of both within them”, wrote Helmar Lerski (1871-1956), remarkable master of portraiture and light. Nadav Kander is the worthy heir. Born in Tel Aviv in 1961 before growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and settling in London in 1985, the British photographer and director knew how to impose his visual universe, notably by shooting the natural portrait of a wide range of personalities.
The Portrait(s) festival, in Vichy, for its twelfth edition, dedicates a monograph to him, the first in France. Around a hundred works from several of his series, oscillating between portraits, nudes, landscapes and video installations, are exhibited in the imposing hall of the Grand Etablissement thermal. Remarkable space of neo-Moorish architecture from 1903, which has since this year become the main gallery of the festival,…
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