Hand-printed Cibachrome photograph of 18^th Century Navajo petroglyph, Northeastern New Mexico, 

14” x 11”, framed to 20” x 16”, 1998.

In Navajo creation stories, Monster Slayer killed dangerous beasts to make our world safe for human habitation.

Leon Yost

ABOUT THE ARTIST

For more than 30 years, Leon Yost has photographed prehistoric rock art in North America and Australia. He has worked as a location scout for the BBC and his work is published in the New York Times, American Photographer, and Time-Life books. Offered are hand-printed vintage Cibachromes, a favored (and almost extinct) photographic process for printing rock art that is quickly being pushed aside by digital technology.