Florian van Roekel (1980) works and lives in the Netherlands. Before he graduated in 2010 from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague with a special distinction, he studied social work. In 2011, Martin Parr voted van Roekels’ book of photography ‘How Terry likes his Coffee‘one of the best books of the decade.
In addition, van Roekel was nominated for the International Center of Photography Infinity Award. He was exhibited as a Talent at the Foam museum and won the Prix Digital de la Photographie at festival Hyeres. His later books Fear of Fall (2013) and Le College (2016) sold out within weeks after publication.
About ‘How Terry likes his Coffee’:
My work evolves about the way we experience everyday life and how that affects the way we deal with each other. My images are documents, taken from a candid reality. But what they really seem to document is the way our perception of the world around has been coloured by years of media input.
For fifteen months I’ve explored five different offices throughout the Netherlands. The book narrates on feeling disconnected from your daily surroundings but at the same time longing for a real personal connection with another human being. I’ve searched for the invisible barriers keeping people separated and the will to break these.
