Daniel Chatard: No man's land - laif foundation for independent photojournalism

As part of the WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2024 exhibition, Daniel Chatard will give a lecture on his project “No Man’s Land” at the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg.

Daniel Chatard won with this series at the World Press Photo 2024 in the category “Europe, Long-Term Projects”.

The photo series deals with the conflict surrounding the extraction of brown coal in the Rhineland. The photographer traveled there 30 times and documented the conflicts there.

Daniel Chatard is a German-French documentary photographer and is represented by the laif agency. He explores themes of power structures, collective identity and trauma. He is interested in how these themes manifest themselves in physical space and how the landscape embodies them as a shared space of experience and memory.

Lecture on the photo project “No Man’s Land” by Daniel Chatard
as part of the WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2024 exhibition at the Altonaer Museum in cooperation with the laif foundation for independent photojournalism.

October 6, 2024 | Start: 10:30 a.m.

Costs: Museum admission

Picture credits:

In January 2018, the parish church of St. Lambertus, popularly known as “Immerather Dom”, will be demolished for the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast mine.

World Press Photo 2024 in the category "Europe, Long-Term Projects"