Taina Tervonen
From 2 November to 14 December 2023

Taina Tervonen was born in 1973 in Finland and grew up in Senegal. Now based in Paris, she has been active for over twenty years in French and Finnish media as a freelance journalist while also working as a translator, documentary filmmaker, and writer. Focusing on so-called family constellations, migration, life stories, and the silences of history, she has produced several books from her long-term investigations, including, with the photographer Zabou Carrière, Fils de… (Trans Photographic Press, 2011), and Face à la vie : 1 an à Garches (OstraVista, 2013). Au pays des disparus (Fayard, 2019) was awarded the Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism. After making two web documentaries, she shot Parler avec les morts, her first feature-length documentary, which was selected for the 2020 Cinéma du réel Festival. She published Les fossoyeuses in 2021 at Éditions Marchialy, which won the 2022 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, and Les otages : contre-histoire d’un butin colonial in 2022.