Adam Nadel

Adam Nadel (born 1967)[1] is an American photographer based in New York City.[2] His exhibitions 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]

Early life

Nadel majored in anthropology at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1990. In 2004 he said his first published photograph "was probably in the Maroon."[4]

If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel

According to David Stanger, director of the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel" comprises 30 images representing "contemporary manifestations of genocide". 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]

Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears

"Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears", conceived and produced by Nadel and the Malaria Consortium, opened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and has been shown at the World Health Organization in Geneva, the National Museum of Ghana in Accra. 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]

Other work

Nadel's has worked for the Associated Press,[3] Newsweek,[4] Stern,[4] The Sunday Telegraph[4] and Time.[3]

Awards

Nadel's "Three Weeks with the Palestinian People" was the first-place news picture story in the 2002 Pictures of the Year International competition, and his "Sierra Leone amputee football team" won World Press Photo's first prize for sports feature singles.[4] Nadel was also awarded World Press Photo's first prize in 2005 for his work on Darfur and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his series "The Face of Sacrifice", depicting Iraq.[3] At the 67th Pictures of the Year International competition in 2010, Nadel received first place in the "portrait series" category for an untitled series dealing with Vietnamese civilians suffering from birth defects caused by the Vietnam War;[7][8] and an "award of excellence" for "Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears".[7][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Malaria: blood, sweat, and tears". Malaria Consortium. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Debrah, Ameyaw (April 25, 2012). ""Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears" on exhibition till May 21". GhanaWeb. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Thomas, Mary (February 21, 2013). "Art Notes: Photo exhibition brings tragedy of Darfur into sharp focus". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved February 10, 2007.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Open Mike". The University of Chicago Magazine 97 (1). October 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Malaria Exhibit at CDC Shows "Blood, Sweat and Tears" Shed to Fight the Disease". Infection Control Today. April 29, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ Lapinski, Valerie (April 12, 2010). "The Many Faces of Malaria". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Winners of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
  8. ↑ "First Place". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved March 31, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Award of Excellence". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved March 31, 2015.

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