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Edition of 100. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle photorag 308. 51 x 61 (20 x 24 in). Special launch price £350 (Normal price £450). Accompanied by a certificate signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Whether the subject is a sweeping landscape or a pensive portrait of the President of the United States, Nadav Kander’s photographs are imbued by his distinctive atmosphere of poignant consideration and a kind of concentrated reflection. Kander, who received the prestigious Prix Pictet Prize in 2009 and was named International Photographer of the Year at the 7th Annual Lucie Awards in 2009, is releasing two prints exclusively with Counter Editions on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Landmark: The Fields of Photography’ at Somerset House in March 2013. Taken from his series of photographs of the American landscape and suburbs entitled ‘God’s Country’, ‘Monument, Utah, USA, 1995’ touches on a theme central to Kander’s work – the impact of human presence on our surrounding environment. The scale of the image seems somehow improbable, the ant-like human figure impossibly tiny in the vast desert scene, dwarfed by a crumbling and obscure monument. There is a certain distance in Kander’s photographs which confounds a normal sense of scale or depth, and which creates a sense of the surreal. The dreamy coloration of the image heightens its strangeness – the blushing pink skies and pale blue snow could perhaps be an image of a different planet entirely. Contemplative and evocative, ‘Monument, Utah, USA, 1995’ is a transporting artwork with existential reverberations.