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Keith Dannemiller was born in Akron, Ohio and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Organic Chemistry and minor in Mathematics. While he was working as a biochemistry research assistant, he also studied photography at San Francisco State University. During this time he published his first images in the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1985, with the support of the Texas Council on the Humanities, he photographed throughout the state of Texas for the project "Working in Texas." While living in Austin, he began the first of many photographic trips to the north of México, in particular the area around Espinazo, Nuevo Leon. There he documented the festival of the Niño Fidencio, a folk saint renowned in México during the 1920s. In 1987, he decided to live and work in México, developing a relationship with the Mexican photo agency Imagenlatina that resulted in two trips to the Middle East to cover the unfolding events of the Intifada.

As a photographer in Latin America, he has covered a wide variety of situations, ranging from Nicaraguan recontras to street children in México City to life on the US-México border. His work regularly appears in Time, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes, amongst other noted publications in the US, Europe, and Asia. He is currently working on a series of color portraits of Mexicans from across the country and the social spectrum. He lives with his wife and their son in the Condesa district of México City.

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