The Witness. 2020.
Black and white photograph. Archival pigment print.
Signed, dated "August 2020" and numbered. From an edition f 12 copies. On matt-finished photo paper. 94 x 150.5 cm (37 x 59.2 in). Sheet (visible area): 99 x 155,5 cm (39 x 61,2 in).
Shot in Kenya in 2020. Printed by BowHaus in Los Angeles. Frame: 132.5 x 188.7 cm (52.2 x 74.3 in). [CH].

• David Yarrow first made a name for himself in the 1980s as a sports photographer for the London Times, with the famous photograph of Diego Maradona after the final of the World Cup in Mexico City in 1986.
• The artist became established as a world-renowned nature photographer only years later, especially over the past ten years .
• With his unique works, he documents nature from completely new perspectives and shows the animal world in expressive, mostly monochrome photographs that get particularly close to the motif.
• Due to his services to the conservation of nature and philanthropic charities, the artist became an ambassador for the African Community and Conservation Foundation (ACCF) in the year the present photograph was shot.

With a certificate of authenticity by David Yarrow Photography, issued in August 2020.

PROVENANCE: Maddox Gallery, London.
Private collection Hesse (acquired from the above).

"It was quite a busy evening alone on the ground underneath Kilimanjaro [..]. I had my moment and the temptation later that night was to crop out the elephant on the right. After all, the charging bull is coming right towards me and is almost symmetrical to the mountain – so perhaps less was more. But we went back and forth with both options, and we all agreed to keep the smaller elephant in the final crop. [..] the elephant to the right adds a sense of scale to the big bull [..]. So, whilst I am an advocate of the power of reductivism, hence my preference for monochrome, we thought it best to show this memorable capture in its widest frame. There is perhaps that little bit more compositional balance this way than in the tight portrait."
David Yarrow about the photograph offered here, 2020, quoted from: Maddox Gallery, https://maddoxgallery.com/artworks/2016533-david-yarrow-the-witness-2020/