Carl De Keyzer is a Belgian documentary photographer, born in Kortrijk in 1958 and based in Ghent. He began working as a freelance photographer in 1982 while teaching photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and co-founded and co-directed the XYZ-Photography Gallery. He joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 1990 and became a full member in 1994.
He builds large book and exhibition projects, often with large and medium format cameras, about systems of power and how they present themselves: colonialism, communism and religion. His books include Homo Sovieticus (1989), about the end of the Soviet Union, ZONA (2003), made in Siberian prison camps, Trinity (2007) and DPR Korea (2017). He has received the W. Eugene Smith Award and the Kodak Award.
For God, Inc. (1992) he travelled across the United States photographing religious life on the margins of American society. About thirty years later, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he returned to the subject for God Inc. II, published with the first part by Lannoo Publishers in 2020.
