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Kyra ten Brink (2002) is a photographer and artist based in Rotterdam. Her work is driven by a long-standing curiosity about emotions: why we feel the way we do and how our experiences shape us. This interest first developed through theatre, later through fine arts and video, and has ultimately found its focus in photography.
Connection is at the centre of her practice. Kyra works from conversation and trust, creating an environment where people can share openly and at their own pace. Photography becomes a way to translate these exchanges into images that reflect presence, honesty, and the human experience without trying to simplify it.
Journeying Home is an ongoing documentary photography project that explores the relationship women have with their bodies and inner lives, focusing on self-connection, identity, and femininity as lived experience. The project began in 2023 as the artist’s own process of reconnecting with her body and emotional world and has since developed into a collaborative practice with women of different ages and backgrounds.
Rather than presenting fixed narratives, the work follows processes of becoming: how bodies carry memory, contradiction, and resilience while moving through social structures that attempt to regulate, simplify, or define them. Many of the women involved inhabit spaces of tension, between softness and strength, public and private, societal expectation and personal truth. The body is approached both as a site of negotiation and as an archive of lived experience, shaped by power yet capable of resistance.
The artist’s process is grounded in creating a slow and safe space. Through conversations, moments of stillness, and intuitive photographic sessions, participants are invited to reflect on their relationship with themselves and to take an active role in how they are represented. Shared authorship and ethical storytelling are central to the project. Questions of agency, visibility, and self-representation extend beyond the images and are further explored in an accompanying essay written by the artist.
Materiality is integral to the work. The photographs are presented as handmade photogravures on Japanese paper, emphasizing tactility and presence. The layering and fragility of the prints echo the layered nature of bodily experience itself, allowing form and subject to remain closely connected.
Connection is at the centre of her practice. Kyra works from conversation and trust, creating an environment where people can share openly and at their own pace. Photography becomes a way to translate these exchanges into images that reflect presence, honesty, and the human experience without trying to simplify it.
Journeying Home is an ongoing documentary photography project that explores the relationship women have with their bodies and inner lives, focusing on self-connection, identity, and femininity as lived experience. The project began in 2023 as the artist’s own process of reconnecting with her body and emotional world and has since developed into a collaborative practice with women of different ages and backgrounds.
Rather than presenting fixed narratives, the work follows processes of becoming: how bodies carry memory, contradiction, and resilience while moving through social structures that attempt to regulate, simplify, or define them. Many of the women involved inhabit spaces of tension, between softness and strength, public and private, societal expectation and personal truth. The body is approached both as a site of negotiation and as an archive of lived experience, shaped by power yet capable of resistance.
The artist’s process is grounded in creating a slow and safe space. Through conversations, moments of stillness, and intuitive photographic sessions, participants are invited to reflect on their relationship with themselves and to take an active role in how they are represented. Shared authorship and ethical storytelling are central to the project. Questions of agency, visibility, and self-representation extend beyond the images and are further explored in an accompanying essay written by the artist.
Materiality is integral to the work. The photographs are presented as handmade photogravures on Japanese paper, emphasizing tactility and presence. The layering and fragility of the prints echo the layered nature of bodily experience itself, allowing form and subject to remain closely connected.
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E x h i b i t i o n s
2022 Group exhibition Collective Subconscious at Kampung 35, Rotterdam, NL
2023 Duo exhibition at Time is the new Space, Rotterdam, NL
2024 Haute Photographie Rotterdam, NL
2024 International Albinism Awareness Day, Schouwburgplein Rotterdam, NL
2024 NockNock Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Kunstfabriek solo exhibition, Rotterdam, NL
2025 Willem de Kooning Graduation show, Rotterdam, NL
2025 Ron Mandos Best of Graduates 2025, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Kijk!Ons group exhibition, Rotterdam, NL
2025 When Flowers Sleep at Ballon Rouge Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2026 States of becoming at The Ace Project, Rotterdam, NL
S e l e c t e d p u b l i c a t i o n s
2023 Pearl Press, ISSUE NO. 17: NOTES
2023 GUP Fresh Eyes
R e s i d e n c i e s
2023 Mausherhaus Foundation, CR
2022 Group exhibition Collective Subconscious at Kampung 35, Rotterdam, NL
2023 Duo exhibition at Time is the new Space, Rotterdam, NL
2024 Haute Photographie Rotterdam, NL
2024 International Albinism Awareness Day, Schouwburgplein Rotterdam, NL
2024 NockNock Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Kunstfabriek solo exhibition, Rotterdam, NL
2025 Willem de Kooning Graduation show, Rotterdam, NL
2025 Ron Mandos Best of Graduates 2025, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Kijk!Ons group exhibition, Rotterdam, NL
2025 When Flowers Sleep at Ballon Rouge Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2026 States of becoming at The Ace Project, Rotterdam, NL
S e l e c t e d p u b l i c a t i o n s
2023 Pearl Press, ISSUE NO. 17: NOTES
2023 GUP Fresh Eyes
R e s i d e n c i e s
2023 Mausherhaus Foundation, CR
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