Photography: Tatanka. Artist: Thierry Vezon.

Photograph from the Yellowstone series, Yellowstone Park, in Wyoming, was created in 1872, on the initiative of President Ulysses Grant. It was the first natural reserve in history, and its creation accompanied that of the Indian reserves where the Americans wanted to concentrate and contain those they called the Redskins. Having conquered and dominated a world, they wished to preserve a few fragments of it, free from all harm and progress. The park is famous for its canyons, for its geysers, for the richness of its waters, the depth of its forests. It is also responsible for saving the bison, the emblematic animal of the Great Plains. In 1902, there were only about fifty in the park; today there are more than four thousand.  Powerful, stubborn, the colour of rock and bark, no one better than the bison expresses and embodies the telluric powers of a land that has remained untouched.