Philip Keppel — Post-Photographic Artist
Los Angeles, California & Tavira, Portugal

Selected
Works

SeriesPost-Photographic Digital Art
Works24 Pieces
Year2024–2026
Artist Statement

These images begin as photographs: personal snapshots, archival documents, stock imagery, found moments. Through digital transformation they become something else entirely. The source material is real. What emerges from it is something harder to name.

The working method is one of collision and displacement. Personal memory meets cultural history; nostalgia meets absurdity; ordinary situations are pushed just far enough out of alignment that their meanings begin to shift. Humor, unease and ambiguity often occupy the same image.

No image here is what it first appears to be. That gap between appearance and reality is where the work lives.

Selected Works

24 works
Dinner Theatre
01

Dinner Theatre

Pride
02

Pride

Bulls on Parade
03

Bulls on Parade

Bible: Season 8
04

Bible: Season 8

Diver Down
05

Diver Down

Looking Close
06

Looking Close

Bliss
07

Bliss

Longing
08

Longing

Viaggio verso la libertà
09

Viaggio verso la libertà

Ride On
10

Ride On

Nobody's Home
11

Nobody's Home

Natural Athlete
12

Natural Athlete

Haze
13

Haze

Composite View
14

Composite View

Simulacrum Break
15

Simulacrum Break

Flight
16

Flight

Found
17

Found

Approaching Blaze
18

Approaching Blaze

Meditative Fez
19

Meditative Fez

Death of Sloppy Joe
20

Death of Sloppy Joe

1980's Wait
21

1980's Wait

Renegades
22

Renegades

Endless Work
23

Endless Work

Freedom Grows
24

Freedom Grows

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About

Philip Keppel

Philip Keppel is a post-photographic artist working between Los Angeles and Portugal's Algarve region. His work begins with photography, archival imagery, public-domain material and licensed visual sources, which he transforms through digital manipulation, compositing, repetition and recontextualization.

Keppel draws on personal memory, cultural history, nostalgia, absurdity and everyday observation, creating images in which familiar situations become subtly or dramatically displaced. Humor frequently sits beside unease, while recognizable imagery is stripped of its original certainty.

Rather than prescribe a narrative, Keppel leaves interpretation deliberately open. The resulting works occupy the unstable territory between photograph, memory and invention.

Catalogue

01Dinner Theatre02Pride03Bulls on Parade04Bible: Season 805Diver Down06Looking Close07Bliss08Longing09Viaggio verso la libertà10Ride On11Nobody's Home12Natural Athlete13Haze14Composite View15Simulacrum Break16Flight17Found18Approaching Blaze19Meditative Fez20Death of Sloppy Joe211980's Wait22Renegades23Endless Work24Freedom Grows
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