Alain Briot Fine Art Photography

Mini-Series #3
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Introduction
The images in this series consist of photographs of petroglyphs from a single location in Northern Arizona. These photographs were created during a 1 hour session.

I have photographed rock art extensively in the past, visiting hundred of different sites, and my motivation when I approached the site depicted here was to do things differently.

To achieve this goal I decided to photograph the rock art 'sideways,' meaning by tilting the camera instead of keeping it horizontal. The fact that the image is tilted is not necessarily visible in the photographs because of the lack of context and the absence of a visual horizon. In fact these images may appear to have been photographed 'level' even though they were not.

The goal of photographing this site with the camera tilted was to give me creative freedom. Instead of following the vertical orientation chosen by the ancient artists who carved these images in the sandstone, I was able to bring my own inspiration by choosing the direction I wanted to give them.

This freedom continued to be inspirational when I designed this web page. I realized that some of the tilted images were inverted versions of the same panel even though they were taken as separate photographs. My first impulse was to show only one of these pairs of images to avoid repetition. However, after reflection I realized that these pairs could be presented next to each other thereby emphasizing their mirror-image quality. As a result of this insight I am presenting three pairs of images that follow this inspiration.

It spent one hour creating these images.

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