De/constructing your Story
De/constructing your Story
Storytelling is often perceived as something classical, following a narrative arc from beginning to end. But storytelling does not have to follow any rules — as long as we know how to use them, bend them, and break them when necessary. Starting from their own experiences of reality, photographers have countless ways of constructing and communicating a story: through observation, sequencing, association, intuition, memory, and imagination, all the way to fiction.
This workshop will explore the different possibilities of photographic storytelling, questioning where a story begins, how it can be shaped, and how far we can move away from reality while still creating something meaningful. Through practical exercises and discussions, participants will be encouraged to experiment with narrative structures and to develop their own ways of telling stories with photographs. Use the code STORY for 50€ discount, until 31st October 2026. The price also includes two lunches, as well as water and coffee.
Chi sarà il tuo docente?
Vasantha Yogananthan
A self-taught photographer, Vasantha Yogananthan was born in 1985 in Grenoble, France, to a French mother and a Sri Lankan father. For over fifteen years, he has developed a body of work grounded in duration and immersion, where photography becomes a space of transformation rather than a tool for recording. Situated between documentary and fiction, his practice explores the persistence of ancient narratives and the ways they continue to shape contemporary spaces and forms of representation. Between 2013 and 2021, he created A Myth of Two Souls, a seven-chapter project inspired by the Ramayana, exploring the space between reality and fiction through, among other approaches, hand-painted photography. The project was exhibited internationally, including at the Musée de l’Elysée (Geneva, 2019), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2023), Pier 24 (San Francisco, 2024) and the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2025). Since 2020, he has been developing a new body of work in Provence, supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The first series from this research, Le Passé composé,was presented in a solo exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2024. Yogananthan is currently working on a trilogy set in Ladakh, in the Himalayas, in India. The first chapter of the project, titled Silver Hands, Summer’s End, is set to be presented as a solo exhibition at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam in 2027. Yogananthan's work has received several international awards, including the ICP Infinity Award for Emerging Photographer (2017). His books Dandaka and Amma have also received distinctions at the Rencontres d’Arles and the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. His works are held in public and institutional collections in Europe and the United States, including the the J.Paul Getty Museum, the Rijksmuseum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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