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Nadav Kander: “Just the right amount of wrong”

Kristina Feliciano — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:49:43 +0000

For a new campaign for the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Fallon came up with a tagline that perfectly encapsulates the hotel’s swanky combination of hipness and decadence: “Just the right amount of wrong.” Then they commissioned a photographer who could visually express the campaign’s promise of an outlandishly—and stylishly—good time. Specifically, Nadav Kander, who worked with Fallon art director Christy Peacock, copywriter Leon Wilson, and art buyer Jason Hall.

Here’s a look at two images from the campaign for Cosmopolitan—which made Condé Nast Traveler’s 2011 “Hot List” for top new hotels—plus some highlights of Nadav’s advertising photography, including campaigns for Hyundai, Cruzan rum, Absolut, Orbit, Nike, Farmers insurance, and Powerade.

Photo by Nadav Kander for the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Click to view larger.

Photo by Nadav Kander for the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Absolut.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Farmers.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Connoisseur.

Photo by Nadav Kander for BurJuman.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Powerade.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Cruzan rum.

Photo by Nadav Kander for St John Ambulance.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Orbit.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Hyundai.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Heal's.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Nike.

Photo by Nadav Kander for Dovobet.

See more Nadav Kander here.

A look at PDN’s Photo Annual 2011

Kristina Feliciano — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:48:27 +0000

PDN's Photo Annual 2011.

PDN‘s Photo Annual 2011 is finally out, a hefty 200-page June issue featuring the best in advertising, magazine/editorial, photojournalism/sports/documentary, video, and more, as judged by a select group of creative directors, photo editors, curators, and editors.

Stockland Martel‘s Craig Cutler, Lauren Greenfield, Nadav Kander, Doug Menuez, John Offenbach, and Art Streiber are among the talented photographers whose work is honored.

Additionally, our SMart Book 2011 is featured in the corporate design/photo products category.

Here’s a closer look at our honorees:

Photo by Craig Cutler.

Photographer: Craig Cutler

Category: Advertising

Agency: Ogilvy

Creative directors: Michael Paterson and Jeff Curry

Art director: Gina Whitt

Client: IBM

A still from "Fashion Show," by Lauren Greenfield.

Photographer: Lauren Greenfield

Category: Video

Publication: New York

Producer: Frank Evers/Evergreen Pictures

Editor: Catherine Bull

Composer: Fol Chen

Photo by Nadav Kander.

Photographer: Nadav Kander

Category: Advertising

Agency: BBH London

Creative directors: Alex Grieve and Adrian Rossi

Art buyer: Sarah Pascoe

Client: St John Ambulance

"Yangtze—The Long River," by Nadav Kander.

Photographer: Nadav Kander

Category: Photo Books

Text: John-Paul Tchang and Kofi A. Annan

Design: Tappin Gofton

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Photo by Doug Menuez.

Photographer: Doug Menuez

Category: Advertising

Agency: BBDO

Art director: Luis Pena

Art buyer: Betsy Jablow

Client: GE

Photo by John Offenbach.

Photographer: John Offenbach

Category: Advertising

Agency: Fallon Minneapolis

Creative directors: Han Lin

Art buyer: Kerri Jamison

Copywriter: Ryan Peck

Client: Travelers

Justin Bieber. Photo by Art Streiber.

Photographer: Art Streiber

Category: Magazine/Editorial

Publication: Vanity Fair

Photography director: Susan White

Photo editor: Sasha Erwitt

Design director: David Harris

Ryan Gosling. Photo by Art Streiber.

Photographer: Art Streiber

Category: Magazine/Editorial

Publication: New York

Photo editor: Lea Golis

Design director: Chris Dixon

More International Photography Awards: the Honorable Mentions

Kristina Feliciano — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:24:05 +0000

Last week, I wrote about the Stockland Martel photographers who took 1st Place at this year’s IPAs. This week, let’s take a look at the photographers from our roster who received Honorable Mentions: Fulvio Bonavia, David Drebin, Jim Fiscus, Rolph Gobits, Lauren Greenfield, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Nadav Kander, John Midgley, Michael Muller, John Offenbach, Martin Sigal, and Luca Zordan.

FULVIO BONAVIA

Category: Automotive. Client: Pirelli.

Category: Advertising. Client: Enel.

Category: Feature Story. Client: Le Figaro.

Category: Advertising. Client: Illy Cafe.

Category: Advertising. Client: React gum.

DAVID DREBIN

Category: Landscape. Title: "Monte Carlo."

JIM FISCUS

Category: Special Effects. Title: "Shot No. 10," from the digital novella "The Unfortunate Moment of Misunderstanding."

ROLPH GOBITS

Category: Portrait. Title: "Katya."

Category: Portrait. Title: "Fire Eaters."

LAUREN GREENFIELD

Category: Feature Story. Title: "VIP Host." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Photo Essay. Title: "Dubai Crash." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Deeper Perspective. Title: "Fashion Show." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Personality. Title: "Billionaire Suzanne Rogers."

TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS

Category: Fine-Art Portrait. Title: "Supermodels." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

NADAV KANDER

Category: Personality. Title: "Spike Jonze (with Fennel)."

Category: Political. Title: "Tories." (Click image to see all 3 photos.)

Category: Advertising. Client: St. John Ambulance. (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Portrait. Title: "Johannesburg." (Click image to see all 3 photos.)

Category: Nudes. Title: "Elizabeth Lying I."

JOHN MIDGLEY

Category: Professional: Other. Title: "America." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Portrait. Title: "Ben Kingsley."

MICHAEL MULLER

Category: Advertising. Title: "Movie and TV Posters." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Advertising. Client: Von Zipper. (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

Category: Underwater. Title: "Sharks." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

JOHN OFFENBACH

Category: Automotive. Title: "Car on Rooftop."

Category: Automotive. Title: "Car on Tracks."

Category: Advertising. Client: Travelers Insurance. (Click image to see all 4 photos.)

Category: Landscape. Title: "Perito Moreno."

Category: Nudes. Title: "70s Nudes." (Click image to see all 4 photos.)

Category: Nudes. Title: "Blue Nudes." (Click image to see all 3 photos.)

.LUCA ZORDAN

Category: Children. Title: "Children of China." (Click image to see all 5 photos.)

To view the entire IPA Honorable Mentions Gallery, click here.

Jason Hindley and Nadav Kander each win a Gold at last night’s Campaign Photo Awards

Kristina Feliciano — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:23:05 +0000

The winners of the second annual Campaign Photo Awards, sponsored by the British advertising magazine Campaign, were announced last night in London, and we’re absolutely chuffed to report that Jason Hindley and Nadav Kander each won a Gold award.

Jason was honored in the Multi-Image Campaign (Colour) category for his work for VCCP London’s “Alcohol: Know Your Limits” campaign, and Nadav won in the Multi-Image Campaign (Black and White) category for the St John Ambulance ads he shot for BBH London. Full credits and images below, courtesy of Campaign…

Jason Hindley for VCCP London: “Alcohol: Know Your Limits”
Joint winner: Multi-image Campaign (Colour)

Note: The images were submitted without copy. To see them with copy, go here.

Brand: Home Office
Entered by: Jason Hindley
Creative agency: VCCP London
Creative team: Dave Tokley, Art Director. Matt Gilbert, Copywriter. Richard Yates, Art Director. Anthony Stamp, Copywriter. Mark Orbine, Creative Director.
Location: London
Brief: The “Would You” print campaign illustrates a series of situations that people would not do while sober, but would feasibly do when drunk. It aims for people to think twice about the risky situations they get themselves into while under the influences.

Nadav Kander for BBH London: “Life Lost”
Winner: Multi-image Campaign (Black and White)

For more on this campaign, go here.

Brand: St John Ambulance
Entered by: BBH
Creative agency: BBH
Creative team: Adrian Rossi, Creative Director/Art Director, BBH. Alex Grieve, Creative Director/Copywriter, BBH. Victoria Daltry, Art Director, BBH. Will Bingham, Copywriter, BBH.
Location: London Studio
Brief: The brief was to create natural portraits but with an unsettling quality and when reading the copy you re-appraise the portraits and realise that they are not alive or sleeping but in fact dead.

Additionally, an image Jason shot for RKCR Y&R made the shortlist. It’s from a campaign called “Don’t Advertise Your Stuff to Thieves,” and it’s right here in all its neon glory:

New work: Nadav Kander’s St John Ambulance campaign is a matter of life and death

Kristina Feliciano — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:00:19 +0000

St John Ambulance is a U.K. charity dedicated to teaching people first aid so that everyone might be equipped with the knowledge to save a life. “We believe that it’s absolutely unacceptable that so many people die needlessly—because no one could give them first aid when they needed it,” the organization states at its website. “St John Ambulance teaches people first aid—about 800,000 last year alone—so that they can be the difference between a life lost and a life saved.”

The difference between a life lost and a life saved—that idea is at the center of a breathtaking campaign Nadav shot for St John, which features sublime black-and-white (fictional) “death” portraits of people whose lives were lost because they were in need of aid…and no one knew how to help them in time.

This is the first major campaign by St John Ambulance in 15 years, reports the Creative Review blog. “As part of the campaign,” writes Creative Review‘s Eliza Williams, “St John Ambulance has created an iPhone App that gives potentially life-saving advice. A free pocket-sized guide featuring first aid skills can also be downloaded from sja.org.uk.”

The agency was BBH. The creative directors were Alex Grieves and Adrian Rossi, and the creatives were Victoria Daltry and Will Bingham.