[1] Tess Boudreau was born in Nova Scotia, and lived there and in Montreal, and Paris.
In 1950, she met her husband, Kryn Taconis, who also had affiliations with Cartier-Bresson through Magnum Photo.
[2] The couple eventually left Paris for Amsterdam, and then moved to Toronto where Boudreau worked as a photographer in the arts community during the 1960s.
Her negatives and contact sheets form one of the AGO Library's Special Collections.
[2] In 2016, her work was included in the exhibition Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto curated by Luis Jacob for the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto Art Centre.