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Philipp Keel is an artist, author, publisher of Diogenes, and a filmmaker. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Munich, before moving to California and working in various artistic disciplines. His photographs, paintings, drawings and prints have since been shown in numerous international exhibitions, most recently at Bildhalle Zürich, and are present in leading collections. He became known for his bestselling series All About Me and All About Us (Random House, 1998), for Color (Steidl, 2003) and the series Simple Diary (Taschen). In 2014 Keel’s project State of Mind (Nieves), featuring drawings, watercolors and silkscreens, was shown at Villa Flor in S-chanf. Following the monograph Splash (2017), which presents a rigorous selection of Keel’s photographic work from recent years, Steidl will next publish Last Summer, a comprehensive collection of the artist’s latest works. Philipp Keel lives in Zurich.