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Works in Series
Audrey lying away on black lace, 2011
Audrey with toes and wrist bent, 2011
Elizabeth sitting, 2012
Elizabeth with elbows hiding face, 2012
Elizabeth with folded arms, 2010
Elizabeth with hand on shoulders, 2010
Elizabeth with raised hand, 2012
Isley arched with white mice, 2010
Isley lying with two white mice, 2010
Isley lying with white mouse on hip, 2012
Michael curled away, 2012
Michael as Holbein’s Christ, 2010
Michael falling, 2010
Michael curled with white mouse, 2010
Stella as Maderno's Saint Cecilia, 2012
Stella staring I, 2012
Stella staring II, 2012
IIsley stretching with white mice, 2010
Isley Standing, 2010
Michael standing, 2010
Isley with fawn I, 2011
Isley with robin I, 2011
Ali with robin, 2011
Mengxi lying away 2010
Mengxi lying towards, 2013
Mengxi stamping, 2010
Mengxi tensed, 2012
Michael (after Duchamp), 2010
Michael (after Muybridge), 2010
Michael Flux, 2010
Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man
Audrey lying away on black lace, 2011
Audrey with toes and wrist bent, 2011
Elizabeth sitting, 2012
Elizabeth with elbows hiding face, 2012
Elizabeth with folded arms, 2010
Elizabeth with hand on shoulders, 2010
Elizabeth with raised hand, 2012
Isley arched with white mice, 2010
Isley lying with two white mice, 2010
Isley lying with white mouse on hip, 2012
Michael curled away, 2012
Michael as Holbein’s Christ, 2010
Michael falling, 2010
Michael curled with white mouse, 2010
Stella as Maderno's Saint Cecilia, 2012
Stella staring I, 2012
Stella staring II, 2012
IIsley stretching with white mice, 2010
Isley Standing, 2010
Michael standing, 2010
Isley with fawn I, 2011
Isley with robin I, 2011
Ali with robin, 2011
Mengxi lying away 2010
Mengxi lying towards, 2013
Mengxi stamping, 2010
Mengxi tensed, 2012
Michael (after Duchamp), 2010
Michael (after Muybridge), 2010
Michael Flux, 2010
Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man

Revealed yet concealed. Shameless yet shameful. Ease with unease. Beauty and destruction. These paradoxes are displayed in all my work: an enquiry into what it feels like to be human.

These naked pictures are the latest, and perhaps strongest, distillation of the themes that continue to fascinate and nourish me. My subject matter is varied, but the essence is the same. Whether photographing on the banks of the Yangtze, or in my studio, I work with the human conditions that link us all: the vulnerability of mankind. What it is to be alone in the world. What it is to be human.

Popular imagery airbrushes the shadow from our lives, but of course there is no health without illness, no life without death, and no beauty without imperfection. Wherever I may be, my pictures seek to expose the shadow and vulnerability that exists in all of us, and it is this vulnerability that I find so beautiful.

Nadav Kander, 2012

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Bodies 6 Women. 1 Man
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