I encourage all panorama enthusiasts to visit the following sites by the Belgian photographer, Michel Dusariez.
His work is unique, ground-breaking and broadens the scope of what it means to be a panoramic image! A biography is below:
Michel Dusariez was born in 1938 in Brussels, where he still lives. In 1959 he qualified as an Optician Optometrist at the Centre for Applied Optical Science.
He has been doing 360° panoptic photography since 1989.
In 1996 he received the DE BOELPAEPE prize from the ROYAL ACADEMY OF BELGIUM - Science Class - for his work in 360° panoptic stereoscopic photography. He was invited to participate in and make a presentation to ELECTRONIC IMAGING - STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY AND VIRTUAL REALITY at SAN JOSE, CA, USA in February 1997.
Michel DUSARIEZ demonstrated his technical progression ( 10 prototypes ) - Cameras he made himself, at the PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM of CHARLEROI Belgium - February/March 1997. He organised the first EUROMEETING of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHERS in Brussels in 1996. He was appointed life member of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHERS ( IAPP ) USA in 1997.
He published two books in French and in English, in collaboration with others: "KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY" and "EXPERIMENTS IN 360° PANOPTIC PHOTOGRAPHY". He illustrates the weekly photographic chronicle "PANORAMIC PORTRAIT" in the Belgian daily newspaper "LE SOIR" ( more than 180 photographs published to date, full page, series still ongoing )
In 1985 he founded and was president of the KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION - FOUNDATION ( KAPWA ). This association has more than 500 practising members throughout the world. He participated in a collective exhibition in 1996 at the POLARIS gallery in Brussels.
He was invited to Tokyo JAPAN in 1989 and 1992 for two exhibitions and conferences.
He was appointed official photographer by the Cultural Centre of Brabant Wallon - summer 1999, for a series on the railway stations of the region.
He participated in the exhibition BRUSSELS, (a city ) in photographs at the Brussels Botanic Gardens as part of Brussels 2000, with 3 large size panoramic photographs.
From august 16 to september15, 2000, ISELP, 30, boulevard de Waterloo at B-1000 Brussels showed a new series of panoptic images realized, Boulevard Albert II in Brussels where contemporary works of art are definitively implanted in the urbanistic landscape.
L'Atelier PH7 BRUSSELS, march 2001, serie on BROOKLYN BRIDGE and TIMES SQUARE in NEW-YORK CITY. 6 panoptics et 2 triptychs panoptic.
Artistes de Woluwé-St.-Pierre, may 2001,
"D'une rive à l'autre, un regard à 360°, January march 2002 , Galerie VERHAEREN, Brussels
Newspaper Le Soir hall , march / april 2002, selection of 21 photographs on 154 published every mondays during 3 years.
