Vasantha Yogananthan

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A Seven-Volume Photobook Retells the Story of an Ancient Hindu Epic


In his contemporary iteration of the Ramayana, Vasantha Yogananthan’s photographs consider memory, history, and the poetics of daily life.
Vasantha Yogananthan, Rama Praying For Victory, 2019

Finding Trance and Transcendence in Vasantha Yogananthan’s Photographic Epic

In the latest installment of his multivolume series of photobooks set in India and Sri Lanka, Yogananthan takes us to a nighttime Hindu ritual celebrating victory over evil.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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