Daniel Chatard (*1996) is a German-French documentary photographer and visual researcher who investigates themes revolving around power structures, collective identity, and trauma. Looking at landscapes as vessels of collective experiences and memories, he develops narratives which tell human stories in their environmental context. His work has frequently been published in media including Die ZEIT, Der Spiegel, National Geographic and Bloomberg.
Daniel holds a BA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, and an MA in Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague. He currently lives in Hamburg.
He describes his approach to working on his long-term projects as involved documentary, making his own relations to his subjects part of the work and using collaboration to create new knowledge. His first photobook Niemandsland, which tells of the conflict over lignite mining in the Rhineland, was be published by The Eriskay Connection in 2024. His current series Equator of Inequality paints a picture of a divided country. He explores the A40 highway as a spatial, socio-political border that divides Germany’s Ruhr region into a wealthy south and a poorer north.
Daniel’s projects have been shown widely in museums and festivals in Germany and abroad. In recent years, these have included the Sammlung Falckenberg of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2024), the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2022), the Noorderlicht Festival Groningen (2023) and the Phototriennale Hamburg (2022). His work has been awarded at the World Press Photo Award and the German Photobook Prize, was a finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and got supported by an artist grant of the city of Hamburg.
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Member of:
Fotobus Society, Freelens e.V., FUTURES Photography, VG Bild-Kunst
Represented by:
laif photo agency
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