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{{short description|Belgian photographer (born 1958)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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|name        = Carl De Keyzer
|image       = FilipNaudts-CarlDeKeyzer-0255.jpg
|nationality = Belgian
|occupation  = documentary photographer, [[photojournalist]]
|birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1958|12|27}}
|birth_place = [[Kortrijk]], Belgium
}}
'''Carl De Keyzer''' (27 December 1958) is a Belgian photographer. Major subjects in his work have included the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]], and [[India]]. He became a full member of [[Magnum Photos]] in 1994. De Keyzer has exhibited his work in many European galleries and has received several awards, including the Book Award from [[Rencontres d'Arles]], the [[W. Eugene Smith]] Award and the [[Kodak]] Award.<ref>[http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R14JWA9 Magnum biography] Retrieved 3 December 2010.</ref>

==Career==
De Keyzer was born on 27 December 1958,<ref name="aboutself">{{cite web|url=https://www.carldekeyzer.com/contact|title=Biography - CV|website=Carl de Keyzer - Photography|access-date=3 June 2024}}</ref> in [[Kortrijk]], Belgium.<ref name="theguardian-pulver">{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-13|title=Photographer Carl de Keyzer's best shot|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jul/08/photography|date=8 July 2009|website=The Guardian}}</ref> His freelance career began in 1982, at which time he also taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, [[Ghent]], Belgium.<ref name="theguardian-pulver"/> During this time, he co-founded the XYZ-Photography Gallery.

Major subjects in his work have included the collapse of [[Soviet Union]] and [[India]]. Robert Koch gallery describes his work as investigating "marginalized social groups and constructs uncritical psychological portraits which work to familiarize the 'other.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/de_Keyzer/index.html |title=Robert Koch Gallery |accessdate=3 December 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203164947/http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/de_Keyzer/index.html |archivedate=3 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was nominated to the [[Magnum Photos]] agency in 1990, became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994. He currently lives in Ghent and continues to teach.

In late 2024, he stirred controversy with a new book called ''Putin’s Dream'', created with the help of [[AI]]. It is intended as a harsh criticism of Putin’s Russia. The book drew both fierce criticism as well as praise for its pushing of boundaries, openness to working with new technologies and interrogating the place of AI in the future of photography. Magnum Photos have distanced themselves from the book.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-25 |title=A photographer created 'fake' images of Russia with generative AI. Now he's losing his biggest fans |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-26/ai-generated-images-photography-trust/104721106 |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=abc.net.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Carl De Keyzer - Photography |url=https://www.carldekeyzer.com/putins-dream |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Carl De Keyzer - Photography |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Publications==
* ''Oogspanning'', 1984,
* ''India'', 1987 (Uitgeverig Focus 1999) {{ISBN|978-90-72216-01-4}}
* ''Homo Sovieticus/USSR-1989-CCCP'', 1989 ([[Distributed Art Publishers]] 1993) {{ISBN|978-90-72216-11-3}},
* ''God, Inc.'', 1992 (Uitgeverig Focus) {{ISBN|978-90-72216-22-9}}
* ''East of Eden.'' Ghent: Ludion, 1996. {{ISBN|90-5544-064-7}}
* ''Europa'', 2000 (Ludion Editions NV) {{ISBN|978-90-5544-287-4}}
* ''Zona'', 2003 ([[Trolley Books]]) {{ISBN|978-0-9542648-4-0}}
* ''Trinity'', 2008 (Schilt Publishing) {{ISBN|978-90-5330-594-2}}
* ''Congo (Belge)'' (Editions Lannoo sa) {{ISBN|978-90-209-8682-2}}
* ''Moments Before The Flood'', 2012
* ''Higher Ground'', 2016
* ''Cuba La Lucha'', 2016
* ''DPR Korea Grand Tour'', 2017

==Awards==
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*1982, First Prize – Experimental Film, Festival for Young Belgian Filmmakers, Brussels, Belgium
*1986, [[Hasselblad]] Award Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
*1986, Grand Prix de la Triennale de la photographie, Photographie Ouverte, {{Illm|qid=Q1955717|musée de la photographie à Charleroi}}, Charleroi, Belgium
*1988, Grand Prix de la Triennale de la Ville de Fribourg, Switzerland
*1990, [[Louis Paul Boon]] Award, Ghent, Belgium
*1990, Prix du Livre, [[Rencontres d'Arles]], Arles, France
*1990, [[W. Eugene Smith]] Award, New York City<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-13|title=1990 Carl DeKeyzer|url=https://www.smithfund.org/recipients/1990-carl-dekeyzer|website=W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund}}</ref>
*1992, {{Illm|qid=Q46485681|Prix Kodak de la critique photographique}}, Paris
*1995, Annual Fine Arts Award Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
*2008, Shortlisted, [[Prix Pictet]] for ''Moments before the Flood''<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-14|title=Carl De Keyzer|url=https://www.prixpictet.com/portfolios/water-shortlist/carl-de-keyzer/|website=Prix Pictet}}</ref>

==Collections==
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De Keyzer's work is held in the following collections:
*[[Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst]], Ghent, Belgium
*Photography Museum, Charleroi, Belgium
*[[Fotomuseum Antwerp]], Antwerp, Belgium
*[[Fnac]] Collection, Paris, France
*Ministry of Culture, Brussels, Belgium
*[[International Center of Photography]], New York<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-13|title=Carl de Keyzer|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/carl-de-keyzer|date=2 March 2016|website=International Center of Photography}}</ref>
*Centro de Arte, Salamanca, Spain
*[[Magnum Photos]] Collection, [[Harry Ransom Center]], [[University of Texas at Austin]]

==Exhibitions==
*''Zona,'' [[Impressions Gallery]], York, UK, 2005<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-08-13|title=Carl de Keyzer, Impressions Gallery, York|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/mar/09/art|date=9 March 2005|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{Official website}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060903064728/http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/TreePf_MAG.aspx?Stat=Photographers_Portfolio&E=29YL53IQTA5 Magnum Photos; Photographers]

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