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Jul 12, 2021

African Community and Conservation Foundation

We are pleased to announce David Yarrow is an ambassador for the African Community and Conservation Foundation.
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Dec 11, 2020

Endangered Rangers Virtual Event

We are pleased to announce that David Yarrow will be speaking at the Endangered Rangers Event on Sunday the 13th of December.
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Nov 10, 2020

Space for Giants Charity Campaign

We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Space for Giants and Adrian Steirn on an exciting campaign - #artforgiants - with the London Evening Standard and the Independent to…
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May 05, 2020

Art For Heroes

In April 2020, David Yarrow released an exclusive image to support ‘Art For Heroes’, the virtual art exhibition set up by Maddox Gallery. Like everyone in the UK, we feel enormous…
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Apr 29, 2020

Harper’s Bazaar x Yarrow, Rwanda

Go behind the scenes of David Yarrow's Harper's Bazaar shoot in Rwanda...
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Feb 13, 2020

Letter From Kangaroo Island, Australia

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Feb 13, 2020

The #KoalaComeback Campaign Support

There is no use having a voice if not to speak out on important issues and I am grateful this week that our message has been amplified a thousand times…
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Feb 13, 2020

Upcoming Events – February

February 19th - Casterline Goodman Gallery, Aspen
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Feb 13, 2020

Recent Events – January

I was honoured to be asked to give the Keynote speech at the UBS Leaders' Forum in Orlando, Florida in early January.
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I am excited to be speaking tonight at the famous Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, Long Island. I look forward to seeing old friends and a few stars from sports, fashion and film. Flattered to hear it’s oversold - there can’t be much else going on. I am a poor golfer, but I was accorded one big privilege in that world when I was asked by Augusta Golf Club to take this image back in 2016 - The Mount Rushmore of Golf. It was sadly one of the last official pictures of the legendary Arnold Palmer before he passed later that year. I remember being a touch nervous when handed that responsibility - nervous and of course humbled by what was in front of my lens. The Jungle Book Stories for #GlobalTigerDay There were only about 1,700 Royal Bengal Tigers left in India at the time this photograph was taken in 2013 – a frightening decline from the estimated 100,000 during the Raj. Therefore, to find a father and son bathing in the same pool in the jungle was statistically unlikely. The positioning of the animals relative to the surroundings or each other is a matter of luck. Over time, luck will average out, but the placement of the adult tiger’s left ear covering his son’s right eye enhances a picture which evokes jungle book stories. I like the lone eye to the right – even though it’s outside my focal plane, it ironically grabs our focused eyes. The End of the Line⁣ ⁣ Longhorn cattle are not only emblematic of Texas, they are also surely some of the most visually spectacular cows in the world. On location on the abandoned film set of “There Will Be Blood”, we tried different combinations with a few prize-winning cows. ⁣ This composition was a test of the crew’s patience and all my thanks go to Ryon Marshall and his fellow cowboys, who worked with great skill. Working Texas cowboys are the real deal - they work their cattle everyday. From an art perspective I sensed that the bull should be facing me and there were no tension points with his horns. ⁣ Rail roads were so integral to the great push West as indeed were wagons and it struck me that they could complement each other outside a station. There is no real need for people to be in the image - there is enough there and the composition works. Rail tracks are great props for artists - they offer a whiff of romanticism and they also lead the eye. LFG This has not been an easy 15 months for filmmakers and photographers - with travel restrictions, cancelled events and movie theatres and galleries closed. The denouement of COVID is also proving to be painstakingly slow. We all may not be where we wanted to be this autumn. But I do fancy that those who earn their living behind a lens are ready to give their all in the months ahead and this will start right now with photographers in Tokyo for the Olympics. There is a great deal of pent up creative energy ready to be unleashed. I have huge respect for the seasoned photographers covering the Olympics having been a very average one myself way back at Calgary in 1988. It’s not easy to be different. For our part, we are excited for the months ahead and will do all we can to make up for lost time. I look forward to the many confirmed shows we have in the second half of the year in places such as Monaco, London, Oslo, Dallas, Chicago, Nantucket, Connecticut, Santa Fe, Antwerp, Zurich and Paris. In between that, we will be filming in Antarctica, Alaska, California and South Africa. Then, of course all, roads lead to Art Miami. It’s going to be busy. We start our shows next week in the Hamptons and I look forward to seeing many old friends. Time to get back into the saddle. Blade Runner In 2017, I spent eight days in North Korea. Given the escalation of tension between the reclusive country and America, my timing for this long arranged trip was luckily about as good as it could be. It was one of the more demanding assignments of my career, simply because the fine balance between the need for personal safety and the need for content is not defined in the same way as it has been for me in other countries. Many of the rural locations that I visited were unequivocally virginal territory for Western photographers. With a travel ban to North Korea in place for Americans, I felt a responsibility to do a good and accurate job. The access was secured after months of negotiation with the North Korean Embassy in London – I was invited into the country as a guest of the Party. Good access is often the key to ground-breaking original content and access to most places can normally only be secured through persistence and resourcefulness. I doubt any western photographer has ever been to this vast steel plant in North Korea before. I was blown away with the visuals. Heavy industry has never looked more visceral and intimidating.
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