The “Spirits” series, exhibited for the first time from April to September 2011 along the path to Choranche Cave (France) for the 2nd “Festival des Arts Grot(t)esques”, is an approach to abstract photography.
Totally inspired by the Choranche prehistoric site and its vibration, it represents a mysterious and supernatural vision of ghosts of our ancestors and of the forces of nature, ghostly, ethereal, evanescent.
When the past is invited in the present, the shadows of the afterlife and the forces that surround us are revealed on a plastic skin taut as hunting trophies from the early tribes era.

Distant, blurry silhouettes, visions of a fragile and pure romanticism, spiritual, made of mystery and dream, are these spirits reason or unreason?
Do they show us a way?
The path of wisdom or madness?
Should we follow them?
It is up to you…

 

First Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

First Spirit, 2011

 

Second Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Second Spirit, 2011

Third Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Third Spirit, 201

Fourth Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Fourth Spirit, 2011

Fifth Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Fifth Spirit, 2011

Sixth Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Sixth Spirit, 2011

Seventh Spirit, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Seventh Spirit, 2011

Spirits, 2011 © Emmanuel Bertrand

Spirits, 2011