Hello I’m Florian Braakman

I’m a photographic artist and
I make work to connect people.
I’m interested in communities, like my neighbourhood
Delfshaven, in Rotterdam.
I make (audio visual) installations,
and I create publications.
Besides that, I make portraits and visual stories for clients

Publication in Foam Magazine #65 Talent, 2024. Via this link you can view the whole publication and read the essay by Aya Musa.

Recent media coverage in Dutch newspapers Het Parool and Algemeen Dagblad (text in Dutch). February / March 2024

Broer, 2017 - present in the exhibition Foam Talent 2024-2025, Amsterdam (NL) 2024

Grant Mondriaan Fonds, Artist Basic. Incredibly happy to share that I have received the Artist Basic grant, to invest in my practice the coming four years.

Exhibition & Magazine Foam Talent 2024-2025 - Opening 22 February, 18:30 - 21:00

Exhibition The Things That Finds Us during Rotterdam Art Week, 2024
Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, Florian Braakman, Liza Wolters, Rawad Baaklini and Sarah Rose Guitian Nederlof

Broer, 2017 - present in the exhibition Generation, Jakarta International Photo Festival (ID), 8 - 24 September 2023

Delfshaven, wat is je droom? 2023. Public art work at Beukelsbrug, Rotterdam, May 2023 - May 2024

Broer, 2017 - present in the exhibition Verbeelding at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, 2022

PRINT SALE / FUNDRAISING FOR TUKEY / SYRIA € 75,-
These pictures from Istanbul, 2014, are for sale, the benefit will go to humanitarian aid in the region. Print sale ended in april 2023

Exhibition Stipendium Schiedams Water, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 14 January - 5 March 2023

Interview with Rizoom, Atelier Geluiden, 2022

Picture installation from Delfshaven’s Finest, 2013 - present, as part of the exhibition (T)huis, Rotterdam Architecture Month, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2022

Charles Esche for Ammodo

Exhibition Verwantschap, Museum IJsselstein, 2022

In Between Homes, Silas Khalipha, South Africa - “Everybody here think’s I’m a millionaire” as part of the exhibition Verwantschap Museum IJsselstein, 2022

Wat een schoonmaker je kan vertellen over goed beleid - Publication on De Correspondent, in collaboration with Rasheed Vlijter en Tim ‘S Jongers, April 2022

Picture installation from Delfshaven’s Finest, 2013 - present, as part of the exhibition Foto Expo Botu, 2022

Album art for Rotterdam based band d’Ancona, get your copy through their Instagram page

Research for Vers Beton, in collaboration with Associate Professor of the Erasmus University Jiska Engelbert

For the campaign Gewoon in Rotterdam, Florian Braakman made a visual tribute to ‘the Kapsalon’. A dish with origins in Delfshaven, but now a snack with world fame. Many thanks to El Aviva and their great kapsalons

New Pictures, 2021, Collages with different sizes and types of paper

Rosemary Joshua for Stichting Ammodo

Exhibition photography workshop with primary school in Delfshaven, in collaboration with Foundation Mesh, June - September 2021

Coffee Bay, Moon I, 2018 - Delfshaven Night Walk I, 2018 - Lucky & Hiro, 2014. Digital C-Print, 30x45 cm, mounted on dibond, framed in white wooden frame. Prints for private collection.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung for Ammodo

Rotterdam, hoe gaat het? 2020 at Foundation Mesh, Marconiplein, 2020
Prints in various sizes in window displays, 24/7 visible for the passerby

Broer, 2017 - present, In Between Homes, 2017 - present. Delfshaven’s Finest, 2013 - present. Different photogaphic works at Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fund shows talent, Art Rotterdam, 2019

Broer, 2017 - present. Installation at exhibition Familie in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2018 - 2019

In Between Homes, Rino Alvarez, Curaçao - “Ik ben een Rotterdammer” - Full HD picture movie