Vasantha Yogananthan — Mystery Street

Vasantha Yogananthan — Mystery StreetMystery 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

and performance

and once the film is loaded the shutter has to be physically cocked and the exposure set manually

eternal heartache

from its puddling source to its great estuarial mouth

they take us into theirs

Rodriguez frames his striking nudes in dialogue with images of tasseography – the practice of divination through coffee-cup reading that runs through Rodriguez’s Dominican heritage – to spiritually engage with the force and beauty of those who appear

Albert Corbí

Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques

one close to the action

Bruno Munari

scenes mutate and people come and go

Frioul is an archipelago in space and in time: these islands have been the scenario of apparently unrelated events that make up a mysterious constellation