Moments Before the Flood

A visual monument that poignantly captures how Europe deals with the threat of global warming.

For four years, Carl De Keyzer spent four months a year traveling the coasts of Europe, from the far north to the south. He photographed alienating landscapes, desolate beaches, deserted hotels, wintry piers and dramatic cloudbursts: beautiful but ominous images with a high David Lynch quality. Moments before the Flood is pre-eminently a photography of waiting. Carl De Keyzer portrays the unheimlichkeit of the indefinable and the uncertain, with a masterful eye for its beauty and with an unparalleled sense of irony.