Daniel Chatard

Teaching areas: Int. Class – Photo Project

Daniel Chatard (born 1996) is a German-French documentary photographer whose work deals with power structures, collective identity and trauma. He is interested in how these themes manifest themselves in physical space and how landscape can be understood as a shared space of experience and memory.

His work has been published in media including Die ZEIT, Der Spiegel, National Geographic and Bloomberg. He has won a World Press Photo Award, took second place in the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, was a finalist for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and was nominated for the Prix Pictet.

Daniel studied Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (BA) at Hochschule Hannover and Photography & Society (MA) at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He currently lives in Hamburg.

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