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Stephan Keppel (born 1973 in Anna Paulowna, Netherlands) is a Dutch artist and photographer whose practice centers on urban space, architectural surfaces, and the mechanics of photographic reproduction. He studied autonomous art at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1994 to 1998 and is based in Amsterdam.
Keppel’s work treats the city not as a collection of fixed monuments, but as an evolving archive of textures, materials, and graphic systems. Rather than capturing traditional street life or panoramic views, his photographs focus on the micro-landscapes of the built environment, concrete, pavement, walls, and structural fragments. By employing processes like scanning, printing, and re-photographing, he investigates the interplay between physical spaces and their printed representations, which is a recurring theme in the Bushwick Sur Seine collection.
He is widely recognized for his sustained investigations into specific urban centers, producing a sequence of acclaimed photobooks that function as cumulative, layered indexes rather than linear narratives:
Keppel's output frequently bridges exhibition-making, book design, and printmaking techniques, questioning the ontology of the photographic image in contemporary visual culture. His works and publications have been exhibited internationally and are featured in major collections and specialized art book institutions.
For the creation of 'Entre Entree', Stephan Keppel spent one year in Paris and its suburbs. By reproducing the endless variations of the city's surfaces, with his set of printers, camera's and partly found paper-stocks, Keppel creates a new urban and visual structure.
This experimental approach gives a unique perspective on a city that is over the years so often visually celebrated. 'Entre Entree' is a very dense, attractive, but at the same time uncanny publication, which is a highlight in Keppel's ongoing research on public space, urban structures and reproduction.