(b. 1984, Cape Town, South Africa)

For more than a decade, photographer Daniel Naudé has practised capturing and perfecting moments of stillness in the natural realm. Martin Barnes, senior curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, observes that each of Naudé's photographs 'is a shared moment in time, one in which the animal and the human seem at once named and yet nameless, specific and yet universal. There is a mutual "now-ness" to his arresting human-animal gazes, mediated by the camera. In total, they read like a remarkable series of ecstatic, intensified meeting points in which we query what it means to be alive, locked in momentary register with another sentient being.’

Naudé was born in 1984 in Cape Town, where he continues to live. He graduated with a BA Visual Arts Honours degree from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007. Naudé has had solo exhibitions at Everard Read Cape Town and London, as well as Stevenson Cape Town and Johannesburg (2011, 2010 and 2014) and the Photographers’ Gallery in London (2013 and 2020). 

Naudé’s first book, ‘Animal Farm’, was published by Prestel in 2012, followed by ‘Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda and Madagascar’ in 2016, also by Prestel. In 2017 Daniel Naudé published a book together with President Cyril Ramaphosa – ‘Cattle of the Ages’ published by Jacana Media 2017. Naudé took part in the Fall 2011 residency programme at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado.

His work has been collected by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Huis Marseille in Amsterdam and by many others such as Paul Allen the co-founder of Microsoft. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021  

The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, London, UK

The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa cattle on the shore of the Wild Coast, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2020

The Bovine Prophecy: Xhosa Cattle on the Shore, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

The Bovine Prophecy, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

2019

A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, London, UK

2018

A Decade of Seeing, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

2014

Sightings of the Sacred: Cattle in India, Uganda & Madagascar, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 

2013

Animal Farm, The Print Room, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK 

2012

Animal Farm, Festival Artist, Aardklop Nasionale Kunstefees, Potchefstroom, South Africa 

2011

Animal Farm, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 

2010

African Scenery & Animals, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Spring Show, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

In Conversation, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

Director’s Selection, Everard Read, London, UK

2020  

Youth-Hood, Life Framers Photography Award touring exhibition, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Milan and London

Unseen – 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Staring Straight to the Future, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

Makay, a refuge in Malagasy land, Musée des Confluences, Lyons, France

Still, online exhibition, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

TINY2020, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa

ODYSSEY, Everard Read, UK & South Africa

Imago, Everard Read, Franschhoek, South Africa

2018

Winter, Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa

BOTH, AND, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 

Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Baden, Austria

2017

10 Years Old, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Italy

Festival La Gacilly Photo, La Gacilly, France

2016

La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, France 

Unseen Photo Fair, The Photographer’s Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2015

La vie moderne, Lyon Biennale, France 

In Focus: Animalia, J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA 

Strange Worlds, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy 

2014

Chroma, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 

Joseph Walsh, Johannes Nagel and Daniel Naudé, Artists House, New Art Centre, Wiltshire 

Apartheid and After, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

2013

The Loom of the Land, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa 

2011

9th Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography, Mali Lagos Photo Festival, Nigeria 

Neither Man Nor Stone, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 

2010

PEEKABOO: New South Africa, Tennis Palace, Helsinki Art Museum, Finland 

Breaking News: Contemporary photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, Modena, Italy 

Beauty in Africa in All of its States, African Union Summit, Addis Abba, Ethiopia 

After A, Photo Notes on South Africa, Atri Reportage Festival, Italy 

2009

Summer 2008/9: Projects, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa 

2008

University of Stellenbosch, Photokina, Köln, Germany 

2007

Greatest Hits of 2007, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 

RESIDENCIES 

2011

Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado, USA 

COLLECTIONS: 

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy 

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA