Yangtze

Having recently caught a peep at Constructing Worlds at The Barbican, there's a photographer that I think the vast majority of exhibition visitors will have jotted, noted or wandered over for quite some time. At least I hope they did.

Two years worth of photos that had Nadav Kander travelling a breadth of 4,100 miles down the Yangtze from Shanghai to the Qinghai province, these incredible shots are as much social commentary as they are simply landscape lush.

'After several trips to different parts of the river, it became clear that what I was responding to and how I felt while being in China was permeating ... my pictures; a formalness and unease'

The tones are as stunning and muted as the subject matter, sweeping between placid and potent, all in a breathtaking haze of sweeping scales. These photos feel as intimate as they do untouchable, making them beautifully forlorn. Nadav Kander may already be a name that receives praise the globe over, but thanks to these Yangtze shots, he's got one more fan under his belt.