Vasantha Yogananthan — Mystery Street _alt_Jeff Wall – A Sudden Gust of Wind Chose Commune / Fondation Hermès

Chose Commune / Fondation Hermès

At the outset of his project

Essay written by Ellen Lapper and Aladin Borioli (ENG/FR)

to the city of Ayodhya to the jungle of Bihar

Vasantha Yogananthan — Mystery Street _alt_Jeff Wall – A Sudden Gust of Wind Chose Commune / Fondation HermèsMystery Street begins and ends with children. Children playing, beaming and daydreaming. Children becoming. In his first North American series, French photographer Vasantha Yogananthan stands next to the youth and gazes at their level. With this project, Yogananthan makes a return to documentary photography, yet frees himself from prescriptions and pushes beyond the frame of tradition. Mystery Street works both as a conversation with the real and an