Tahné Kleijn Fotografie

Name: Tahné Kleijn Fotografie
Address: Helmond, NL
Telephone: +31628425385

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Tahné Kleijn Fotografie

Tahné Kleijn is a Photographer, Artist, Journalist and above all a storyteller.

03/09/2026

One year ago today, Ibu died.

About an hour later, I made this photograph.

I had the strange and urgent feeling that I wanted to photograph her one more time.
Ibu had been part of my life since I was eighteen. In many ways, she had become home to me.

She is also everywhere in Soo d'oude Songen, the long-term series in which I have photographed my family since 2015.

The project began with the family I grew up in: financial problems, addiction and instability. For years, photography was my way of trying to understand where I came from.

But over the past decade, almost everything has changed.

My mother died. My brother and I both have children now. We have built lives that look very different from the ones we grew up in.

And I have started to wonder: what happens to a long-term project when the story you thought you were telling has changed?

I don't know yet what Soo d'oude Songen will become.

I only know that I am not ready to let it go.

Maybe, for now, that is enough.

19/08/2026

19 years ago today, Paul came home from Afghanistan.

I took this photograph of him years ago, with my first analogue camera. I didn’t know then how much his own experience would eventually become part of my work.

Paul will portray my grandfather in the next chapter of Mijn Liefste Teun.

He doesn’t have to imagine what it means to be away from your wife and children for months at a time. He knows what that distance feels like.

My grandfather spent years at sea during the Second World War, while my grandmother and their children were living through the war in the Dutch East Indies. Their experiences were very different from Paul’s, but there is something about that particular distance — being away from the people you love, and returning to a family that has continued without you — that he understands from his own experience.

Perhaps that is one of the reasons I want him to portray my grandfather.

Sometimes, when making photographs about the past, the people around us in the present become part of the story too.

30/07/2026

One year ago, I created the final image of “My Dearest Teun,”

The story found its first mayor home: a solo exhibition at PENNINGS FOUNDATION | Eindhoven

The story reached beyond the gallery walls, on Dutch national radio (Radio Kunststof and the news BV )

Presented as a solo project during Unseen Photo / Art Rotterdam▪️Contemporary Art Fair (with eternal thanks to Studio Seine - Contemporary Art Gallery for believing in me and the project)

A month-long solo exhibition at Studio Seine - Contemporary Art Gallery , sharing this story with a new audience.

Taking “Mijn Liefste Teun,” to Barcelona, and sharing it with an international group of curators during International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA)

And now, slowly, the next chapter begins….

10/07/2026

Last two days to visit Mijn Liefste Teun at Studio Seine.

The exhibition closes on 11 July with a finissage between 15:30 and 17:30.
Free entry.

If you still want to see the work in the space it was made for, this is the final opportunity.

09/07/2026

Closing weekend.

This Friday I’ll be spending the afternoon and evening at Studio Seine, where my solo exhibition Mijn Liefste Teun is on view.

If you’re nearby, feel free to stop by for a drink, have a look around, or simply say hello. I’ll be there from 3:30 PM until 8:00 PM.

The exhibition remains on view Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with Saturday being the final day.

I’d love to see you if you have the chance.

📍 Studio Seine - Contemporary Art Gallery

06/07/2026

Final week to visit Mijn Liefste Teun at Studio Seine.

The exhibition explores how family memory and colonial history are intertwined — not as a closed chapter, but as something that continues to shape the present.
If you’ve been meaning to visit, this is the moment.

Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 11 July.

03/07/2026

This week I’m in Barcelona for the IPFA meeting ( ) and portfolio reviews with international festivals and curators.
These kinds of encounters are essential to my practice. They create space for dialogue, reflection, and for the work to be seen outside of its original context.
It’s in these conversations that images often start to shift — and sometimes, so does direction.

Images from the amazing from my project 'Stilte heeft het laatste Woord', currently on show at

01/07/2026

Mijn Liefste Teun is currently on view at Studio Seine.

The exhibition explores colonial family history through staged photography, moving between memory, fiction and lived experience.

You are welcome to visit the gallery every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 11 July.

29/06/2026

Returning to these photographs years later, I am struck by how quickly collective experiences can fade from public consciousness.

During the pandemic, many of us shared feelings of uncertainty, loneliness, fear, and unexpected tenderness. Yet memory has a way of smoothing over discomfort once everyday life resumes.

Silence Has the Final Word asks what remains after the crisis itself has passed.
Which moments continue to shape us? Which stories do we carry forward? And how do we make space for remembering experiences that were, for a brief period, shared by millions of people?

A selection from the series is currently on view at ZonMw.

27/06/2026

These photographs begin long before the camera appears.

Family stories, archival fragments, historical research, sketches, collected objects, costume fittings, and conversations slowly accumulate until an image begins to emerge.

I am not interested in reconstructing history exactly as it happened. Instead, staged photography allows me to explore emotional truths that often remain absent from official narratives.

Memory is rarely linear or complete. It is fragmented, contradictory, and shaped by the present moment from which we look back.

Through these constructed scenes, I try to create space for complexity rather than certainty.

'Mijn liefste Teun' - on view

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