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Nadav Kander: The edge of things – Collector’s Edition

The first major career-spanning survey of celebrated contemporary photographer Nadav Kander, whose tireless commitment to stylistic and technical experimentation, combined with a deeply held appreciation for the frailty of the human condition, has created photographs both compelling and uncanny, epic and intimate.

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Master image-maker Nadav Kander has made some of the most important contributions to modern photography. Over the past three decades, he has turned his lens on everyone from Barack Obama to Tracy Emin, and landscapes from Chernobyl to the Thames Estuary to the Yangtze River, with an eye for the psychologically complex. From a photographer who seldom chooses to look back, this publication offers a rare chance to view highlights from across Kander’s vast and varied portfolio, edited and with an introduction by renowned curator, David Campany, and an essay by critic Lou Stoppard.

Kander’s first professional work as a photographer was during his obligatory military service in the South African Air Force, where he spent long periods in darkrooms mastering the techniques of his photographic idols: Strand, Stieglitz, Weston and Atget. Kander's tireless commitment to stylistic and technical experimentation, combined with a deeply held appreciation for the frailty of the human condition, has created photographs both compelling and uncanny, epic and intimate.

The publication coincides with an internationally touring retrospective of Kander’s work opening at Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam, which includes highlights from across his career.

Specification

245 × 305mm
192 pages
Hardcover

Cloth-bound
Foil blocked typography

Presentation Case
Solander construction
Cloth-bound
Foiled blocked typography
Lined with deep blue paper stock
Pull ribbon

Print Portfolio
Cloth-bound boards
Ribbon corners

The Print
279 × 350 mm
Archival pigment print
Hahnemuhle natural white cotton rag 285 gsm

Estimated delivery

November 2026

Shipping

Tracked worldwide

The Book

Available only on Volume, this limited collector’s edition features an exclusive signed and numbered print, contained within a cloth-covered clamshell box. 
This elegant publication interweaves Kander’s portraiture, personal projects and landscape photography, including his Prix Pictet-winning series of the Yangtze River. A collaboration between Nadav Kander and David Campany, with an essay by Lou Stoppard, this is the first book to collect work from across the extent of Kander’s oeuvre and trace the links throughout: the delicacy of human existence, the passing of time, the grain of the everyday, and the hope for something transcendent. Kander’s conversations with Campany reveal the method behind his genius.

Nadav Kander’s vision is entirely his own, and his craft is second to none.

David Campany
The clamshell box opens to reveal the portfolio case containing the limited edition signed and numbered print. Beneath the portfolio sits the book, with a ribbon pull for ease of opening.

The Print

From the series ‘God’s Country’, Crumpled Barns, Texas, 1995 conveys an atmosphere of melancholy and longing. Each 11 × 13 ¾ inch limited edition print is individually numbered and signed on the back by Nadav Kander. The print is on Hahnemuhle natural white cotton rag paper and secured in a 3 mm board presentation portfolio.
Title: Crumpled Barns, Texas, 1995
Image size: 259 × 330 mm
Paper size: 279 × 350 mm
Medium: Archival pigment print
Paper type: Hahnemuhle natural white cotton rag 285 gsm

Nadav has displayed that rare ability to bring his artistry and understanding of all aspects of the photography medium to both his commercial and personal work. However, more important is his personal work which continues to evolve and has grown to a place of maturity in its sublime and effectively quiet reverence. He has mastered the medium and uses it to allow the viewer a contemplative and often spiritual experience. At the same time, one feels the intelligence and meaning in his work. Personally, I am moved by looking at Nadav’s photographs.

Howard Greenberg
Meet the authors

Nadav Kander is an award-winning photographer of portraits and landscapes, whose work is housed in the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Public Library, among others. He lives and works in London.

David Campany is a curator, writer, editor, educator and the creative director of the International Center of Photography in New York. His previous books include Walker Evans: Now & Then (2026), Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation (2024), William Klein: YES (2022) and On Photographs (2020). Among Campany’s many prizes are the ICP Infinity Award and the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award.

Lou Stoppard is a British writer and curator, whose work has appeared in The Financial Times, Aperture, The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is the author of numerous photography monographs and has curated exhibitions in London and Paris.