A self-taught photographer, Vasantha Yogananthan was born in 1985 in Grenoble (France) to a French mother and a Sri-Lankan father. While creating his first long-term Piémanson (2009-2013), Yogananthan realised that good photography is linked to the passing of time. To him, a new project always starts with an intuition, and then time makes him understand what it is that he is looking to photograph and how. Yogananthan feels that analogue photography allows for life and art to coalesce in a creative space where the act of making pictures — for people on both side of the camera — can be realised to its fullest. This approach has stayed with him through the evolution of his practice.