Johan van der Keuken was born in Amsterdam in 1938. He began experimenting with photography at the age of twelve and published his first book of photographs in 1955, We Are 17. In 1956 he won a scholarship to IDHEC Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris. From then on, his career as filmmaker and photographer developed around the theme of the perception of reality. Johan van der Keuken has written many film reviews and since 1977 has been writing a column called From the World of the SelfEmployed for the Dutch film journal Skrien. He has taught seminars in Geneva, Hamburg, Brussels, Annecy, Beaconsfield, Stuttgart, Berlin, Ludwigsburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Mülheim, New York and, in 1998, at the European Film College, Denmark, and the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA. Unless otherwise specified, Johan van der Keuken is his own cameraman.

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