W ( 5 ) - Nadav Kander

It's such an honour to meet one such a great photographer Nadav Kander in real life. Not only get the chance to listen his ideas and concept, I get to know the reason why he's a great photographer.

Nadav Kander

I get to see few pieces from his several series including Yang Tze - The Long River, Dust and Obama.

Maybe the greatest thing to learn about is not about the technique or what kind of camera he's using but his opinion that created all the beautiful photographs.

From landscape to portraits, I think Nadav Kander's work has a great impact from the emotional sides. Throughout the Q&A session, someone asked him about the expression of Obama as people tend to get a perfect portrait when they are taking a photo, yet Nadav had revealed the identity of Obama but not a fake smile in front of the camera. I think the idea of shooting the reality is great, without making things to look perfect maybe is one of a kind of perfection.

Another question that asked by another lecturer, asking about Nadav who travel a lot to take beautiful scenery, and asking which is the next destination going to be. The answer from him really impressed me. He said he never know his next destination, because he always explore to new places. He mentioned about when we travel to a new place, our eyes try to capture all the details and looking into all the things on the first 5 days, and after that, we don't even bother about what's going on in the surrounding. His idea of photography is to observe all the details and capture the moment but not a place that he's so used to be.

Every exploration has it's own meaning, and maybe it's time to look for one.