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 can be found in many private collections.