Nadav Kander is a contemporary British-Israeli photographer known for his images of cities and landscapes, as in his photobooks Yangtze—The Long River (2010) and Dust (2012). Kander’s work often focuses on changes in society by capturing abandoned structures or those still being built. “Just showing positive, expected images of beauty an airbrushing away the conditions that make us human seems like a deception to me,” he has said. Born on December 1, 1961 in Tel Aviv, Israel, his parents moved to Johannesburg only two years later. He began to take photographs using a Pentax camera in 1974, and was later drafted into the South African Army, where he worked in a dark room. In 1986, Kander moved to London where he established...