The Senator

Name: The Senator
Brand: David Yarrow
Price: 595000.0 ZAR
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Size

132cm x 180cm

180cm x 251cm

Style

Photography

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David Yarrow

The Senator

Edition of 12

Archival Pigment Print

This is such a simple portrait of Elmo - a Western lowland Silverback gorilla. The photograph makes no claim to be anything else than a facial study. The flat lighting helps elevate the textural detail, and its simplicity is its strength. With less facial hair - especially on the forehead than a mountain gorilla and narrower bone structures-they look more like humans than their cousins from higher altitudes. They are very firmly on the anthropologist’s road map.

The photograph could be a painting by a Dutch master, and the gorilla himself reminds me of some people I know - mostly people in authority. There is a calm wisdom, a steely fortitude and a whiff of sovereignty. He is a Senator - a man representing his people.