Yogananthan’s first major project was Piemanson, a series shot over five summers (2009–13) on the last wild beach in France. His seven-book project A Myth of Two Souls (2013–21), inspired by the Indian epic tale The Ramayana, received solo exhibitions at the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland (2019), the Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo (2019), DECK, Singapore (2020), and the Belfast Photo Festival, United Kingdom (2023). The project was also exhibited in the group shows Illuminating India: Photography 1857–2017 at the Science Museum, Londo (2017), and Body Building at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2019). Yogananthan has received several awards, including the Prix Levallois, Paris (2016) and Emerging Photographer of the Year in the ICP Infinity Awards in New York (2017). In the same year, he was selected for the Foam Talent programme, Amsterdam. His books Dandaka (2018) and Amma (2021) were awarded respectively the Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award (2019) and Jurors’ Special Mention at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards (2021). In 2022, Yogananthan participated in Immersion, a French-American photography commission by Fondation d’entreprise Hermes, Paris, in partnership with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, and The International Center of Photography, New York. In 2014, Yogananthan co-founded the publishing house Chose Commune in Paris.