While on a road trip through South Africa’s Karoo region in 2006 Daniel Naudé (b.1984 Cape Town) encountered a feral dog foaming at the mouth and wearing and intent gaze. This run-in motivated Naudé to begin this series of photographs on the Africanis, wild dogs thought to have migrated from Egypt and now inhabiting the South African countryside. Photographing these lithe, skittish animals in not an easy task – although in these images they appear to sit politely and patiently for their portraits.

Daniel Naudé’s Animal Farm follows his photographic pursuit of the Africanis dog in the desert plains of the Karoo as well as other animals and humans that populate the South African landscape.  Print Sales are excited to present this work for the first time in the UK alongside a book publication.

The photographer’s formal, painterly compositions capture a time before man intervened in the landscape. Throughout Naudé’s work the animals stare at the view with a disquieting conscience, a reminder to question our presumptions about humanity’s dominion over the animal world.

Martin Barnes, senior curator of photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum observes that the photographs ‘read like a remarkable series of ecstatic, intensified meeting points in which we query what it means to be alive, locked in a momentary register with another sentient being.

Venue: Photographer’s Gallery, 16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW

Open: Print Sales Exhibition 30th May - 28th July 2013

For more information please visit: http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/