David Yarrow:
‘I doubt I will ever take a more powerful portrait of either an elephant or East Africa than this one. That’s the thing about this work: it’s a collision of two enormous features—one volcanic, one iconic—and they complement each other and raise the bar higher still. It’s a timeless piece, closer to perfection than anything I can remember in my career. The contextual narrative behind Tim, the elephant, is East Africa at its symbolic best’.