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July 5, 2012
It is widely accepted by climate change scientists that the sea level will rise dramatically before the end of the century. Carl De Keyzer's book Moments Before the Flood is a photographic investigation into how Europe is coping with this difficult to gauge threat. The coasts of Europe are the areas which will bear the impact of the rising sea levels and the project poses the question: is Europe prepared for this sea level rise and to what extent will its efforts prove to be futile.
Carl De Keyzer, Thames Estuary. Great Britain, 2009, from Moments Before the Flood
The Maunsell forts were built during the second world war to protect London from the attacks of the German planes. The work focuses on empty landscapes, desolate beaches, deserted hotels, wintry piers, bleak harbor cranes and disconsolate cliffs, in an attempt to depict images of doom in David Lynch fashion. The images depict the absence of catastrophe-- they allude to the disaster waiting to happen.
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