Federico Veronesi on Photographing a Grieving Elephant in Namibia

Federico Veronesi's defining image shows a female elephant in the Namibian desert carrying a stillborn calf that was not her own. The elephant had miscarried two years earlier and had taken to picking up the stillborn young of other mothers. Veronesi has photographed elephants across Kenya and Namibia for 20 years, guiding photographers on the Maasai Mara National Reserve.