Richard Koek

Dutch-Argentinean photographer Richard Koek is a visual storyteller. He shares his love of New York City and Tokyo and the people that live there.
His sensibility for the complicated life in these cities shows in his photos, which are rather than a decisive moment, an encouragement to viewers to form their own interpretation of his work. Every picture becomes a new narrative, unique to its beholder.

In 2018 his monograph NEW YORK NEW YORK was published by Lannoo Publishers. In 2021 a midprice version of this book was publsihed worldwide. In February 2024 his second book Tokyo Tokyo will hit the book shelves worldwide!

Koek decided to give up his profession as a tax lawyer to pursue his passion for photography in New York City. His work has featured in renowned titles including Interview Magazine, Stern, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. Richard Koek lives in New York and Amsterdam,

working for various international publications, companies and non-profit organizations, and has been purchased by The National Archives of Holland, The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam.
 He has exhibited work at the Photoville Festival in NYC and Fotofestival Naarden in The Netherlands...

University of Amsterdam, Master of Law
Academy of photography Haarlem, The Netherlands

# February 2024 Publication second book Tokyo Tokyo (Lannoo-publishers)
# summer 2021 Publication mid price version monograph New York New York (Lannoo-publishers)
# 2018 Koek Eduard Planting Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “New York New York” Solo exhibition. Curator Feiko Koster.
# 2018 Kunst RAI, Eduard Planting Gallery. Group exhibition.
#Publication monograph New York New York (Terra-Lannoo)
# 2016 Senaspace NYC, USA. “New York/New Amsterdam” Solo exhibition. 
Curators Julia Gruen (Keith Haring Foundation) and Erik van Ginkel (Director Rijksmuseum).
# 2013 Fotofestival Naarden, The Netherlands. 140 x 6.5 feet installation of a NYC street.
# 2013 Photoville Brooklyn, USA. 140 x 6.5 feet installation of a NYC street.
# 2009 South Street Seaport Museum, NYC, USA. – Series “New Dutch Pioneers”.
# 2004 The Art + Commerce Festival, Brooklyn USA.
Series “Feet”.
# 2001 Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam, Netherlands. Series “People of Surinam”. Permanent collection.