About

Hi, I'm David De Backer.

I'm a photographer who works in information technology. I built KeywordLens to make large photo libraries easier to organize, without taking control away from the photographer.

A red-billed oxpecker feeding on a zebra in warm evening light.
Red-billed oxpecker, Timbavati, 2026Photograph by David De Backer

Why I built KeywordLens

Trips often left me with thousands of images and no realistic way to keyword, title, and organize them all. Manual tagging became the bottleneck between taking photographs and finding them again. I built KeywordLens to handle that tedious first pass, so photographers can spend less time entering metadata and more time working with their images.

How I think about your data

Your catalog should remain yours. KeywordLens processes photos on your machine whenever possible. If you choose a cloud AI provider, it sends only what that specific analysis requires. It adds to your existing keywords rather than replacing them, and it never changes your original image pixels.

See my photography

Photography is what led me to build KeywordLens. You can see more of my work at gallery.ddbworks.com.

Support the work

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