BIO
I'm a South African photographer, visual artist and filmmaker, currently based in London.
I'm motivated to produce work that blends storytelling elements from my documentary photojournalist background with an abstract artistic nature that seeks to explore the unconscious.
I have worked as freelance photojournalist in Tbilisi, Georgia where I covered stories in the greater Caucuses region and in several post-Soviet states, including Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
I studied a MA in Photography: The Image & The Electronic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I learned to extend my photography practice into the spheres of filmmaking, animation, analogue photography, portraiture and mixed media art.
My photographs have been published in BBC News, GQ, Men’s Health, OZY and Huck Magazine, as well as in media outlets in Italy, the Netherlands, China, Portugal and Russia.
My photographic projects that have been exhibited at the Somerset House Gallery in London and Casa Saraceni Gallery in Bologna, Italy as part of the Syngenta Photography Award.
My work has also been shown in galleries in Rome, Nepal, South Africa, Ukraine, South Korea and Georgia.
I have worked for the United Nations Development Programme Ukraine – covering conflict-affected communities in the eastern Ukraine – and for a variety of NGOs in South Africa, Madagascar, Swaziland, India, Georgia and Ukraine, including UNDP Georgia, Operation Smile and Save the Children.
I'm especially interested in the analogue photographic process and alternative printing methods as a means of disrupting the passive manner of consuming digital imagery.
If you'd like to get in touch for commissions, assignments or collaborations, you're in luck because I have been saving all my best photographs for you.
Email me at ianmcnaughtd@gmail.com and let's work together.
Exhibitions
Dreams in Blue
William Goodenough House, London
Solo exhibition
2020
Pixelscape
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Group exhibition
2020
Between The Soil And The Sky
William Goodenough House, London
Solo exhibition
2019
Men Between Mountains Suwon Photo Festival, Suwon,
South Korea
Group exhibition
2018
The Battlegrounds of Ukraine Suwon Photo Festival, Suwon,
South Korea
Group exhibition
2018
I.N.C.L.U.S.I.ON
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
Group exhibition
2018
One Shot
Kolga Photo Week, Tbilisi, Georgia
Group exhibition
2018
Grow/Conserve
Somerset House, London
Group exhibition
2017
The Street Experience
Gallery Millepiani, Rome
Group exhibition
2017
Grow/Conserve
Casa Saraceni Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Group exhibition
2017
Grand Opening
Fotografia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Group exhibition
2017
Manhood For Amateurs Grey Area Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Solo exhibition
2016
Moving Asia
Photo Kathmandu photography festival, Kathmandu, Nepal
Group exhibition
2020
Upcoming exhibitions
The Goldsmith Film Festival, London
2020
Bloomsbury Film Festival, London 2020
Editorial publications
BBC News
OZY
GQ
HUCK Magazine
Men’s Health
The New Humanitarian
Chai Khana
Elsevier Juist (Netherlands)
P3 (Portugal)
Lenta (Russia)
Getaway Magazine
Go! Magazine
Life Force Magazine
Internazionale (Italy)
Sunday Independent
Between 10 and 5
TheDifferent.tv
Edge Of Humanity Magazine
The Superbalist
Daily Nation
NGO Clients
UNDP (Ukraine)
Operation Smile (Madagascar, South Africa, Swaziland)
Save The Children (Georgia)
The Gu Chu Sum Institute (India)
Ubuntu Africa: (South Africa)
Elva (The Netherlands)
Ikamva Labantu (South Africa)
CENN (Georgia)
Reach For A Dream Foundation (South Africa)