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Philipp Keel is an artist, author, and publisher of Diogenes. His photographs, paintings, drawings, and prints have been shown in international exhibitions and are present in leading collections. He became known for his bestselling series All About Me and All About Us (Random House, 1998/2000), for Color (Steidl, 2004) and the series Simple Diary (Taschen, 2009). In 2014 Keel’s project State of Mind (Nieves), featuring drawings, watercolors and silkscreen prints was shown at Villa Flor in S-chanf. Besides the monography Splash (Steidl, 2015), Steidl also published a comprehensive catalogue entitled Color (Steidl, 2004) as well as Last Summer (Steidl, 2019). Keel accompanies international film and television projects as a producer for Diogenes Entertainment, most recently the series Ripley, which was released on Netflix in April 2024. Philipp Keel lives and works in Switzerland and Italy.

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