Born in 1985, Vasantha Yogananthan lives and works in Paris. In 2014, he co-founded the publishing house Chose Commune and published his first book, Piémanson, which was nominated for MACK First Book Award and Kassel Best Book of the Year.

In 2015, Vasantha Yogananthan was the recipient of the IdeasTap/Magnum Photos Award (category international) to help him fund A Myth of Two Souls, his 7-book project on the Ramayana in India. In 2016, he was awarded the Prix Levallois. In 2017, he was awarded an ICP Infinity Award as Emerging Photographer of the Year.

A Myth of Two Souls - a project spanning over 7 years (2013-2019) - is a series that he believes will evolve in directions he can’t yet foresee. Moving away from the documentary genre that describes the early stages of the project, he has spent the last two years working with a local artist to reviving the tradition of hand-painting. The more his practice grows, the more he perceives photography as a malleable material open to interpretations.