Artist Talks - Vasantha Yogananthan
Vasantha Yogananthan Talk – The Photographers’ Gallery
As a part of my professional development planning blog, I was required to attend multiple talks in regard to my studies at galleries in order to gain further insight into the photography industry and what it’s like to be working within it. I decided to attend a talk at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, online, with the photographer Vasantha Yogananthan who is a documentary photographer and visual artist from France whose work focuses on the idea of narrative and storytelling using a combination of landscape, portraiture, and documentary photography along with slight elements of fine art. By focusing on these themes, his work often links to the idea of narrative by creating photographs that resonate with myths and folklore within Indian life as shown within his project titled ‘AMMA’ which was discussed in the talk put on by The Photographers’ Gallery.creating a story and narrative within the images based on the myths and folklore of India. More specifically, this project showcases a series of work that is created as a modern retelling of the legendary princess Sita who was said to travel from the seacoast of Sri Lanka to the city of Ayodhya to the jungle of Bihar, India. It also links in with another of his photographic projects called ‘A Myth of Two Souls’. Within this project, the artist, creates these photographs to document the journey that the princess would have taken along with combining his images with elements of fine art which is done by outlining the people captured within the photos with a colour but leaving their clothing visible. By combining these two artforms, his works takes on an almost mythical atmosphere, since it’s based on a world where civilisation gradually disappears which I feel is the reason behind Vasantha Yogananthan outlining some of the people caught within his photos in colour.
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