I’ve always loved taking photos and capturing the world around me. Looking back it was a way to express myself without words, so having to explain my photos–who were meant to be my words–with actual words has been and will always be a challenge! To me, the purpose of the assignment was to have a story and use photos as illustrations. Which again, would be difficult for me, because that meant I had to come up with the words, when typically my work is the words itself.


At first, I tried to think of a story, but I almost went crazy trying to piece it together with the concept photos. So I tried to generalize and just think of short sentences or words, hoping I could rearrange them into something comprehensible. Luckily that worked, and all I had to do was take the pictures. Unfortunately, when the time came, I got shy, so I improvised and went completely off my script.


Vasantha Yogananthan takes photos that are words, yet when I look at them, I can’t describe them. I just stare, whether it be in awe or confusion. I love to sit and think when looking at any picture, not just his. I love when all other noise is drowned out and all other thoughts are gone because I’m so focused on the photo. No need to talk about it, just me and my internal narrator.


I took these photos hoping others would look and analyze what in the world was going on in the picture and my mind when I took these. If I had a title for this piece, I would call it “What’s Going On”