Nadav Kander - Life Lost
Kander’s series of images life lost had the brief of having to “create natural portraits with an unsettling quality”however with careful analysis of the image reading it and focusing more you begin to realise that the “models” are dead.
The Lost Life images are focused on the models a little girl, little boy and two males. They look very clean and neat and have no sense of an expression which they are trying to portray. The styles of the images are black and white portrait photography and they have white borders around the image resembling a photograph that could have been taken by a Polaroid camera rather than a digital camera. The models are all dressed in black and they all appear to be asleep the images being in black and white I feel helps to create a very peaceful and calm tone. Having a black background also helps to ensure that the focal points of the image are the models and their face as they “sleep”.
I feel the stories in the images are what help to make it very powerful. We are given a story in the persona of the models in each image. The little girl explains the story of how a grape was stuck in her throat and how she panics trying to find an adult who will know what to do while not being able to breathe. It is not until we read her name and
D.O.B- D.O.D that we realise she had dies from this experience.
The other three images have similar messages and all tell the story of how the lives of these people were lost, here is when it hits us as the views, when the realisation kicks in, these people are not asleep…they are dead.“You can be
the difference between life. And death.”
The images are all about their simplicity they have the ability to evoke calm feelings and emotions in you with its use of soft lighting. The images give you sense that the “models” are laying down asleep. I feel this campaign is really effective because the models are actually dead. The picture makes me feel quite uneasy I feel this is a sense that the photographer wanted to portray, a very blunt way of bringing its message to people.
The Lost Life images are focused on the models a little girl, little boy and two males. They look very clean and neat and have no sense of an expression which they are trying to portray. The styles of the images are black and white portrait photography and they have white borders around the image resembling a photograph that could have been taken by a Polaroid camera rather than a digital camera. The models are all dressed in black and they all appear to be asleep the images being in black and white I feel helps to create a very peaceful and calm tone. Having a black background also helps to ensure that the focal points of the image are the models and their face as they “sleep”.
I feel the stories in the images are what help to make it very powerful. We are given a story in the persona of the models in each image. The little girl explains the story of how a grape was stuck in her throat and how she panics trying to find an adult who will know what to do while not being able to breathe. It is not until we read her name and
D.O.B- D.O.D that we realise she had dies from this experience.
The other three images have similar messages and all tell the story of how the lives of these people were lost, here is when it hits us as the views, when the realisation kicks in, these people are not asleep…they are dead.“You can be
the difference between life. And death.”
The images are all about their simplicity they have the ability to evoke calm feelings and emotions in you with its use of soft lighting. The images give you sense that the “models” are laying down asleep. I feel this campaign is really effective because the models are actually dead. The picture makes me feel quite uneasy I feel this is a sense that the photographer wanted to portray, a very blunt way of bringing its message to people.