Quote: "I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true."
Carl De Keyzer joined Magnum Photos in 1990 and became a full Member in 1994.
Belgian, b. 1958

Carl De Keyzer started his career as a freelance photo-grapher in 1982, while supporting himself as a photography instructor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. At the same time, his interest in the work of other photographers led him to co-found and co-direct the XYZ-Photography Gallery. A Magnum nominee in 1990, he became a full member in 1994.

De Keyzer, who has exhibited his work regularly in European galleries, is the recipient of a large number of awards including the Book Award from the Arles Festival, the W. Eugene Smith Award (1990) and the Kodak Award (1992).

De Keyzer likes to tackle large-scale projects and general themes. A basic premise in much of his work is that, in overpopulated communities everywhere, disaster has already struck and infrastructures are on the verge of collapse. His style is not dependent on isolated images; instead, he prefers an accumulation of images which interact with text (often taken from his own travel diaries). In a series of large tableaux, he has covered India, the collapse of the Soviet Union and - more recently - modern-day power and politics.

Awards
1995 Annual Fine Arts Award Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
1992 Prix de la Critique Kodak, Paris, France
1990 W. Eugene Smith Award, New York, USA
1990 Prix du Livre, Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Arles, France
1990 Louis-Paul Boon Award, Ghent, Belgium
1988 Grand Prix de la Triennale de la Ville de Fribourg, Switzerland
1986 Grand Prix de la Triennale de la photographie, Photographie Ouverte, Charleroi,
Belgium
1986 Hasselblad Award Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
1982 First Prize - Experimental Film, Festival for Young Belgian Filmmakers, Brussels,
Belgium

Exhibitions

2004/05 Zona - Musée du Croix Rouge, Geneva, Switzerland;
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
2004 Impressions Gallery, York, UK
2004 Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
2004 PMMK, Ostend, Belgium
2004 History Paintings - Nicolaj Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium
2003 God Inc. Théatre de Namur, Namur, Belgium
2003 Europa – S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2002 Tableaux d’Histoire - Centro de Arte, Salamanca, Spain
2002 Zona - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2001 Europe - Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France
1999 C.C. De Velinx – Tongeren, Belgium
1998 Europa / History Paintings - Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1997 Tableaux d’Histoire – Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1996 East of Eden - Belgische Huis, K?ln, Germany; Fotoinstituut, Rotterdam,
Netherlands
1996 East of Eden/Tableaux d’Histoire - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent,
Belgium
1994 Casino, Beringen, Belgium
1994 Hogeschool, Den Haag, the Netherlands
1994 Galerie Polaris, Brussels, Belgium
1993 Nikon Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1992/93 God Inc. - California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, USA;
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Canon Image Center,
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Frankfurt Forum Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
1989/90 Homo Sovieticus - Musée de la Photo, Charleroi, Belgium; Galerie du Chateau
d’Eau, Toulouse, France; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum van
Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Canon Image Center, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
1987/88 India – Galerie Frédéric Basille, Montpellier, France; Congress Center,
Lubljana, Yugoslavia; Canon Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Fotogalerije Novo
Mesto, Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia; Center for Photography as an Art Form, Bombay,
India; Fotografie Museum, Antwerp, Belgium; Gallery Focus, Amsterdam,
Netherlands; Galerie Nueva Imagen, Pampelona, Spain
1987 Galerie Contretype, Brussels, Belgium; Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
XYZ Fotografie, Ghent, Belgium
1984 CCH Hasselt, Belgium

Collections
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Lhoist, Limelette, Belgium
Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Centro de Arte, Madrid, Spain
FNAC, Paris, France
Ministry of Culture, Brussels, Belgium
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Books
2003 Zona, Trolley, UK
2002 Tableaux d’Histoire, Consorcio Salamanca, Spain
2000 Europa - (Re)constructing the Past, Ludion, the Netherlands
1996 East of Eden, Ludion, Belgium
1992 God Inc., Uitgeverij Focus, Netherlands
1989 Homo Sovieticus, Uitgeverij Focus, Netherlands
1987 India, Uitgeverij Focus, Netherlands
1984 Oogspanning – Fotografie Carl DeKeyzer 1981-1984, Carl De Keyzer, Belgium