Obama's People

Obama's People by Nadav Kander, this series is great, Kander was invited to take portraits of Obama's political team, including cabinet members and assistants. I feel he's really managed to capture the personality with each person (something I imagine would be quite hard to achieve with politicians, especially American ones)

On the portrait of Hillary Clinton he says,

"I asked people to bring something personal with them. Hillary Clinton did not bring anything but she was very dressed up for the photograph. She had beautiful jewellery and make-up, and that was her contribution. That is so telling in its own way"


The composition reminds me of Luke Stephenson, the eye's never meet the camera, which I feel help's the viewer and the subject feel at ease with the photograph, letting the personality free.



Nadav's work is of a high quality in general, following the well trodden path of commercial photographer to artist, I feel his work shows a considered style and as always with my luck, the exhibition of this work ended yesterday...

Check out his website