"When I'm taking a picture, I'm completely immersed in what I'm doing. I don't hear anything, I don't think about anything other than what I'm looking at."
Philipp Keel
Philipp Keel is an artist, author and the publisher of Diogenes. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Academy for Film and Television in Munich, before living and working in the U.S. for over twenty years. His photographs, paintings, watercolors, drawings, silkscreens and sculptures have since been shown in numerous international exhibitions and are present in leading collections. Keel became known for his bestselling series All About Me and All About
Us (Random House, 1998/2000), for Color (Steidl, 2004) and the series Keel's Simple Diary (TASCHEN, 2009/2011). His project State of Mind (Nieves, 2014) was shown at Villa Flor in S-chanf and Apalazzo Gallery in Brescia. His photographs were presented at Camera Work in Berlin, and with Splash (Steidl, 2015), Last Summer (Steidl, 2021) and In Other Words (2022/23) at Bildhalle in Zurich. Most recently, his work was on display with Coincidences (2023) at Grisebach in Berlin. Keel accompanies international film and television projects for Diogenes Entertainment as a producer. In 2022 he received the ›Premio Enrico Filippini‹ for his work as a publisher. Philipp Keel lives and works in Switzerland and Italy.