Kryn Taconis

Kryn Taconis (1918-1979) was the first Dutchman who became member of the Magnum-photo agency from 1950 until 1960. The year before that he had emigrated to Canada, where he remained a freelance photographer for Canadian magazines. In the 1960s he also produced and directed a number of films for the Canadian government. For fear of French reprisals, Kryn Taconis’s trip to Algeria was clandestine. For the same reason the photographs he made there were only published after his death in 1979.