This autumn, British photographer Nadav Kander and GOST Books publish Dark Line – The Thames Estuary. Presented in its entirety in book form for the first time, Dark Line brings together photographs made between 2015 and 2024 and is Kander's most personal body of work.
The series follows the Thames Estuary, where the River Thames widens dramatically as it leaves London and meets the North Sea, the same stretch of water J.M.W. Turner painted for its light, but one now mostly known, if at all, for its low grey marshes and mudflats. Each photograph brings together the landscape of the estuary and the human history embedded within it, a place ‘out of sight of the capital,’ as Kander puts it. He works slowly, often spending hours until dusk making long-exposure photographs. Back in the studio, the artist revisits and reprints the images again and again, sometimes over several years, refining each one until it reaches what he describes as ‘feeling like water.’
Works from the series The Dark Line are part of the large solo exhibition The Edge of Things, on display at Foam from 18 September 2026 until 20 January 2027.
Published by GOST Books 226 x 320 mm 84 pages, hardcover 53 colour images Language: English ISBN: 9781805980568
