2014 Photo Contest, Staged Portraits, 3rd prize

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Photographer

Nadav Kander

for New York magazine

01 October, 2013

Portrait of actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.

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Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander is a London-based artist renowned for his portraiture and large-format landscape photographs. Kander was born in Israel in 1961 and moved to Johannesburg, South Af...

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New York, USA

British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (36) played a man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into the slave trade, in the film 12 Years a Slave. He won Best Actor at the Bafta awards for the role, and was also nominated for an Oscar.

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Shutter Speed

1/181

Focal length

120

F-Stop

11.0

ISO

100

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Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Nadav Kander

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