Nadav Kander
11/02/2011 - 11/04/2011
Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía. C/ Pintor Díaz Molina, 9. 04002, Almería
Monday to Sunday from 11 to 2 p.m and from 5.30 to 9.30 p.m.
Consejería de Cultura. Junta de Andalucía.
Obama´s People and Other Portraits is the title of a show by the renown photographer Nadav Kander, based in London. It features the portrait of Obama himself and his team taken before he took office as President of the United States, together with a series of portraits of artists and celebrities such as Brad Pitt, Henry Kissinger or David Lynch.
Obama´s People was commissioned by The New York Times to reflect the character and personality of the people who would set a new course. With this in mind, Kander tried to get accurate but also revealing, so he asked each of them to bring whatever they might think seemed to reveal something of their personality -some of them brought a basketball, a Blackberry or a diary. He avoided the context of place and time, lighting on a seamless white background and, at the same time he managed to highlight all the details that are often unnoticed in a familiar setting or at work and that say so much about the subject. "These people were the authors of their own pictures. They presented themselves the way they wanted to be shown", points out Kander.