Carl de Keyzer has worked with the panoramic format since 1983, travelling to areas that are far from our consciousness, such as the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia (where the Soviet gulag used to be), or Trinity, Nevada, where the first atomic tests were carried out. Elsewhere, he shoots in the panoramic format what he calls “war pictures”, i.e. traces of conflict on daily life: Kabul’s destroyed palace, the charred remains of a burned village in Congo, bullet-pierced buildings in Ango [...]
Carl de Keyzer has worked with the panoramic format since 1983, travelling to areas that are far from our consciousness, such as the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia (where the Soviet gulag used to be), or Trinity, Nevada, where the first atomic tests were carried out. Elsewhere, he shoots in the panoramic format what he calls “war pictures”, i.e. traces of conflict on daily life: Kabul’s destroyed palace, the charred remains of a burned village in Congo, bullet-pierced buildings in Angola, a large, wrecked Russian plane in Kabul’s airport.