{{Short description|American photographer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2019}} {{infobox person |name=Adam Nadel |birth_date={{birth year and age|1967}} |alma_mater=University of Chicago |occupation=Photographer }} '''Adam Nadel''' (born 1967)<ref name=mc1>{{cite web|url=http://malariaconsortium.org/tears/malaria-blood-sweat-and-tears/about-the-exhibition/#tabs-280-0-1|title=Malaria: blood, sweat, and tears|publisher=Malaria Consortium|accessdate=November 19, 2014|archive-date=November 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129032616/http://malariaconsortium.org/tears/malaria-blood-sweat-and-tears/about-the-exhibition/#tabs-280-0-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an American photographer based in New York City.<ref name=gw>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=237011|title="Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears" on exhibition till May 21|date=April 25, 2012|accessdate=February 10, 2013|work=GhanaWeb|first=Ameyaw|last=Debrah}}</ref>

Exhibitions of Nadel's work include ''If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel'' (2007), which comprises 30 portraits of people involved in the Bosnian War, Rwandan genocide and war in Darfur;<ref name=pg>{{cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/uncategorized/art-notes-photo-exhibition-brings-tragedy-of-darfur-into-sharp-focus-473130/|title=Art Notes: Photo exhibition brings tragedy of Darfur into sharp focus|date=February 21, 2013|accessdate=February 10, 2007|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|first=Mary|last=Thomas|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020200727/http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/uncategorized/art-notes-photo-exhibition-brings-tragedy-of-darfur-into-sharp-focus-473130/|archivedate=October 20, 2012}}</ref> and ''Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears,'' a multi-media exhibition illustrating malaria's impact.<ref name=gw/>

==Life and work== Nadel majored in anthropology at the University of Chicago and graduated in 1990.<ref name=ucm/>

Nadel was a New York City staff photographer for the Associated Press in the late 1990s,<ref name=pg/> and has worked for ''Newsweek'',<ref name=ucm>{{cite journal|url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0410/alumni/mike.shtml|title=Open Mike|date=October 2004|volume=97|issue=1|journal=The University of Chicago Magazine|accessdate=February 10, 2013}}</ref> ''Stern'',<ref name=ucm/> ''The Sunday Telegraph,''<ref name=ucm/> ''Time'',<ref name=pg/> ''The Times''<ref name=pg/> and ''The New York Times.''<ref name=pg/> ''The New York Times'' nominated his 2005 work in Iraq for a Pulitzer Prize.<ref name=pg/>

According to David Stanger, director of the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nadel's 2007 exhibition ''If My Eyes Speak: Photographs by Adam Nadel'' comprises 30 images representing "contemporary manifestations of genocide".<ref name=pg/> Each long exposure portrait is 18 inches square and includes minimal background detail, and all are accompanied by excerpts from interviews with their subjects.<ref name=pg/>

His exhibition ''Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears'', conceived and produced by Nadel and the Malaria Consortium, opened in 2010 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City and has been shown at nine venues on four continents.<ref name=gw/> The exhibition deals with the relationships between malaria, poverty and the need to combat the disease.<ref name=gw/> It includes more than 40 of Nadel's images,<ref name=gw/> taken in locations including Nigeria, Uganda and Cambodia, which illustrate the effects of the disease on families, health workers, researchers and communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/04/malaria-exhibit-at-cdc-shows-blood-sweat-and-tears-shed-to-fight-the-disease.aspx|title=Malaria Exhibit at CDC Shows "Blood, Sweat and Tears" Shed to Fight the Disease|date=April 29, 2011|accessdate=February 10, 2013|work=Infection Control Today|archive-date=January 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113074642/http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/04/malaria-exhibit-at-cdc-shows-blood-sweat-and-tears-shed-to-fight-the-disease.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nadel said in 2010, "If you have a bunch of great pictures but they don't communicate the complexity and the important aspects of what you’re documenting, then what you have are powerful emotional photographs, but they won't offer you the possibility for education." Subjects include a Cambodian boy, a group of Nigerian men wearing gas masks and gloves and carrying spraying equipment, and a magnified mosquito's foot. Nadel also invited the Brazilian artist Kako to create a graphic novel depicting the process by which the disease is transmitted.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/showcase-148/|title=The Many Faces of Malaria|date=April 12, 2010|accessdate=February 10, 2013|work=The New York Times|first=Valerie|last=Lapinski}}</ref>

In 2017 Nadel's photographs of the Everglades, produced as part of a collaboration with the anthropologist Jessica Cattelino, were exhibited in Everglades National Park.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/humanitys-hidden-hand-in-shaping-the-everglades/|title=Humanity's Hand in Shaping the Everglades|first=Justin|last=Porter|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 17, 2017}}</ref> In 2018 Nadel became that year's artist in residence at Fermilab, where his work was exhibited in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.fnal.gov/2018/01/photographer-adam-nadel-selected-as-fermilabs-new-artist-in-residence-for-2018/|title=Photographer Adam Nadel selected as Fermilab's new artist-in-residence for 2018|date=January 11, 2018|accessdate=May 15, 2020|publisher=Fermilab}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/physics-in-the-eyes-and-ears-of-an-artist|title=Physics in the eyes and ears of an artist|date=August 8, 2019|magazine=Symmetry|first=Caitlyn|last=Buongiorno}}</ref>

==Awards== *First Prize, 2005 World Press Photo contest, Portrait Story category<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC NEWS {{!}} In pictures: World press photo award 2004 |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/in_pictures_world_press_photo_award_2004/html/9.stm |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-02-11 |title=World Press Photo Awards 2005 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/world-press-photo-awards-2005/ |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> *First Prize, World Press Photo contest, Sports Feature category<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2004/adam-nadel/1|title=2004 Adam Nadel SP1 &#124; World Press Photo|website=www.worldpressphoto.org}}</ref> *First Prize, Pictures of the Year International, News Story<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poy.org/60/12/index.php|title=POYi &#124; Winners|website=www.poy.org}}</ref> *First Prize, Pictures of the Year International, Campaign 2004 Picture Story<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poy.org/62/10/nade_01.php|title=First Place &#124; Campaign 2004 Picture Story|website=www.poy.org}}</ref> *First Prize, Pictures of the Year International, Portrait Story<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poy.org/62/winnerslist.html|title=Winners List &#124; Sixty-Second Pictures of the Year International Competition|website=www.poy.org}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.adamnadel.net/ Official website]

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