Adam Nadel
Adam Nadel (born 1967)[1] is an American photographer based in New York City.[2]
Exhibitions of Nadel's work include If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel, which comprises 30 portraits of people involved in the Bosnian War, Rwandan Genocide and war in Darfur;[3] and Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears, a multi-media exhibition illustrating malaria's impact.[2]
Life and work
Nadel majored in anthropology at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1990.
Nadel's exhibition If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel comprises 30 images representing "contemporary manifestations of genocide."[4] Each long exposure portrait is 18 inches square and includes minimal background detail, and all are accompanied by excerpts from interviews with their subjects.[3]
His Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears exhibition, conceived and produced by Nadel and the Malaria Consortium, opened in 2010 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and has been shown at 9 venues on 4 continents. The exhibition deals with the relationships between malaria, poverty and the need to combat the disease. It includes more than 40 of Nadel's images,[2] taken in locations including Nigeria, Uganda and Cambodia, which illustrate the effects of the disease on families, health workers, researchers and communities.[5] Nadel said in 2010, "If you have a bunch of great pictures but they don't communicate the complexity and the important aspects of what you’re documenting, then what you have are powerful emotional photographs, but they won't offer you the possibility for education." Subjects include a Cambodian boy, a group of Nigerian men wearing gas masks and gloves and carrying spraying equipment, and a magnified mosquito's foot. Nadel also invited the Brazilian artist Kako to create a graphic novel depicting the process by which the disease is transmitted.[6]
In 2012 Nadel began working on a project documenting the Everglades watershed in southern Florida, Getting the Water Right. The project investigates how politics, culture, economy, and ecology have impacted the Everglades' ecosystem. Funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Magnum Foundation, the exhibition opened at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History in 2015 [7], the Southeast Museum of Photography, and The Everglades National Park in early 2017.
Nadel was a New York City staff photographer for the Associated Press in the late 1990s,[3] and has worked for Newsweek,[8] Stern,[8] The Sunday Telegraph,[8] Time, The Times and The New York Times. The New York Times nominated his 2005 work in Iraq for a Pulizer Prize.[3]
Awards
- 2002: First-place news picture story, Pictures of the Year International competition, for "Three Weeks with the Palestinian People".
- 2004: First prize for sports feature singles, World Press Photo, for "Sierra Leone amputee football team".[8][9]
- 2005: World Press Photo's first prize for his work on Darfur.[3]
- 2006: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography.
- 2006: Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his series "The Face of Sacrifice", depicting Iraq.[3]
- 2010: First place in the "portrait series" category, at the 67th Pictures of the Year International competition, for an untitled series dealing with Vietnamese civilians suffering from birth defects caused by the Vietnam War.[10][11]
- 2010: "Award of excellence," Pictures of the Year International, for "Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears".[10][12]
- 2013: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography.
Exhibitions
- 2010: Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, 2010. Toured to World Health Organization, Geneva; National Museum of Ghana, Accra;[2] Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL; Hôtel de Ville, Paris.
- 2015: Getting the Water Right, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT.[7]
References
- ↑ "Malaria: blood, sweat, and tears". Malaria Consortium. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Debrah, Ameyaw (April 25, 2012). ""Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears" on exhibition till May 21". GhanaWeb. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Thomas, Mary (February 21, 2013). "Art Notes: Photo exhibition brings tragedy of Darfur into sharp focus". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved February 10, 2007.
- ↑ David Stanger, director of the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- ↑ "Malaria Exhibit at CDC Shows "Blood, Sweat and Tears" Shed to Fight the Disease". Infection Control Today. April 29, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Lapinski, Valerie (April 12, 2010). "The Many Faces of Malaria". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- 1 2 "In progress". Adam Nadel. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Open Mike". The University of Chicago Magazine. 97 (1). October 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2004/sports/adam-nadel
- 1 2 "Winners of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
- ↑ "First Place". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
- ↑ "Award of Excellence". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved March 31, 2015.