Nadav Kander has spent 50 years photographing cultural icons including Barack Obama and Sophia Loren, as well as remarkable landscapes from Chernobyl to China.

London

"The Soho that I loved was almost out of a Dickens novel… It was amazing. I would always go to one Italian deli, Lina Stores on Brewer Street — it’s still there."

Lina Stores

"Highgate Cemetery in North London, as a graveyard goes, is a good one. It’s overgrown and your imagination can get carried away."

Highgate Cemetery

"In the ’80s, London was the place for photography… I went to The Photographers’ Gallery a lot. I’d buy my lunches there and look at the work and the bookshop."

The Photographers’ Gallery

"I like Victoria Miro a lot. Their space is quite theatrical and they install so well and use their building so cleverly."

Victoria Miro

"Richard Serra is a wonderful sculptor, who just does the simplest, simplest things, that are so pared down."

Fulcrum

"It’s really incredible at six in the morning, or seven in the winter, when there’s a mist and the deer are there with their horns sticking above it."

Richmond Park