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.

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

24/06/2026

I don't think I could have made this series before becoming a mother.

Through motherhood, my grandmother's story shifted from historical distance to emotional proximity. For the first time, I could begin to imagine impossible choices, fear, protection, exhaustion, and love existing side by side.

My children even became part of the work itself. They portray my uncle, who was born in an internment camp during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
Everyday gestures from our family life found their way into these photographs. In one image, my daughter Lenna's way of holding a shirt was recreated almost exactly. A fleeting moment from our kitchen table became part of a much larger story about colonial history and inherited memory.

Perhaps that is what family stories do. They move between generations, changing shape while remaining deeply familiar.

'Mijn Liefste Teun', is on view at until July 11th.

22/06/2026

Do you love photography and feel ready to take the next step?

Goeikes is currently looking for enthusiastic photographers who want to grow, experiment, and develop a photographic series of their own.

Whether photography is your passion, you're just starting to take your work more seriously, or you've been dreaming of giving your creative practice a boost, this programme is designed to help you move forward.

Over the coming months, you'll work on creating a series under professional guidance, receive feedback and support throughout the process, and ultimately present your work in an exhibition. I'll be one of the mentors guiding participants as they develop their ideas and discover their own visual language.

You don't need to have everything figured out. Curiosity, motivation, and a willingness to learn are far more important.

Applications are open until 28 June.

If this sounds like something you've been waiting for, head over to .nl and apply via the link in their bio. I'd love to meet the next group of photographers and see where this journey takes them.

20/06/2026

Five years ago, my mother died.

In the years that followed, I made the series Uit 't Oog, in 't Hart (Out of Sight, Close to Heart), exploring the strange coexistence of absence and presence. How someone can disappear physically while continuing to shape the rhythms of everyday life.
Grief altered not only my personal life, but also the way I make work. It taught me to pay attention to what cannot be seen directly: memory, longing, care, and the invisible threads that connect us to those who came before us.

Looking back, I realise that many of my projects return to these same questions. How do we carry the people we love? How do private experiences become shared stories?
This series became one way of searching for those answers.

18/06/2026

Today, another exhibition opens.

A selection from my series Silence Has the Final Word is now on view at ZonMw.
Created during the pandemic, these staged photographs explored isolation, uncertainty, and the strange stillness that settled over our daily lives. They emerged from a period in which the future felt impossible to imagine, while ordinary gestures suddenly carried enormous weight.

As political inquiries revisit the decisions made during COVID-19, I find myself returning to the questions that shaped this work. Not whether everything was handled correctly, but how collective experiences continue to live on within us. What do we remember? What do we choose to forget? And how do moments of crisis reshape the way we relate to one another?

I'm grateful that these images continue to open up conversations years after they were made.

17/06/2026

Last week, my solo exhibition Mijn Liefste Teun opened at

Through staged photography, the exhibition revisits my grandmother's life in the Dutch East Indies and explores the complexities of colonial inheritance, family memory, and the contradictions we carry across generations.

The work does not seek easy answers. Instead, it asks how love and prejudice, tenderness and complicity, can coexist within one person and continue to shape the stories we inherit.

The exhibition is free to visit every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 11 July.
I would be honoured to welcome you there.

03/05/2026

Mijn liefste Teun began as a way of approaching my grandmother’s wartime history — not to reconstruct it literally, but to move closer to its emotional architecture.
The series draws from family archives, inherited stories, colonial history, and the fragile space between personal memory and historical silence.

Through staged tableaux, still lifes and carefully constructed interiors, I try to create images that feel suspended between tenderness and unease.
What interests me most is not only what is remembered, but how memory survives: through fragments, gestures, materials, atmospheres, and omissions.

This June, the series will be shown more extensively in my solo exhibition

28/04/2026

In between preparing for the upcoming solo exhibition, I’ve also started developing a new chapter within this ongoing body of work.

Working title: Pop (nickname for my grandmother)
This chapter centres around my grandfather, who was conscripted as a marine during the Second World War and survived being torpedoed twice.

At this stage, the work begins with research: archives, fragments, family stories, historical context, and the slow task of understanding what kind of visual language such a story asks for.

I never begin with the image alone. First, I need to know what kind of silence I’m entering.

23/04/2026

I’m very happy to share that on 11 June, my solo exhibition at will open.

The exhibition will bring together a large part of Mijn liefste Teun — a body of work rooted in family history, inherited memory, and the emotional residue of war.
A small part of the series was recently shown at UNSEEN, but this exhibition will reveal the broader arc of the work.

More details soon.

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http://www.tahnekleijn.com/

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