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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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Feb 13, 2020

Tim’s Obituary

Obituaries are not written for elephants. When they die, their names are not remembered, their photographs are not featured in the news, nor are their virtues explored by those that…
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Latest from Instagram

We are pleased to share that our image Basic Instinct raised HK$395,000 (£36,000) for the Mother’s Choice Hong Kong virtual gala this past weekend. Mother’s Choice is a charity serving the many children without families and pregnant teenagers in Hong Kong. Their vision is to see every child in a loving family. In the last year, they faced many challenges in providing services to children, youth, and families in their community due to COVID-19 and we hope this contribution will help Mother’s Choice continue their vital work. With the cancellation of events in 2020 and 2021 for many charities, it is great we can come together in other ways to help. We look forward to working with our charity partners as parts of the world open up and we overcome these challenges together. @motherschoicehk Apache In the 16th century, the Apache migrated south to the Texas Panhandle from what is now Canada. There they eventually encountered Mexicans; Western settlers and of course the Comanche - the most feared of the Native American tribes. The Apache wars with the US army spanned three decades of the 19th century, but it was ultimately the Comanche who pushed them further south towards the border with Mexico. Consequentially, the Apache settled the furthest south of all the Native American tribes. In my search for the setting for this portrait, I looked for features that would readily locate the elder and his horse. There needed to be a sense of place to lend weight to the narrative. We found this escarpment rising above cactus rich scrubland only about 40 miles north of the Rio Grande in West Texas. The photograph was taken just a few minutes after sunrise. Out there in South West Texas the light can get a little too harsh before most folk are out of bed. As it was, we were back home by 10 am. We want to thank our new friend Mo Brings Plenty for his help in this project. Ocean's Eleven I saw this opportunity develop during evening rush hour on a narrow coastal path in St. Andrews Bay in 2018. Hundreds of king penguins in groups of 10 to 20 were making the journey, with the South Atlantic in the background and the trapped glacial lake in the foreground. On this day the wind was gentle, which allowed greater creativity in photographing the fishing commute. If the march of the penguins is perpendicular to the camera, all the penguins should be in focus. But generally penguins do not march as orderly as Marines, and their line tends to be characterized by chaos rather than even spacing. If any penguin obscures part of another—and this happens most of the time—it creates a visual tension point and that tension doubles in a reflection. I want these types of images to be simple and easy on the eye, and I can’t stand tension points. If there are just a few penguins in a line, the task is easier, but the longer the line, the more arresting the image. As it turned out, there was just one image in which it all came together. The second - and third-last penguins were almost together, and the beak of the second-last could have been obscured, which would have disrupted the image. But, by a fraction, all was OK. When I returned to the boat and counted all the penguins, there were 11, which made the naming of the image a straightforward and immediate job. Bodega Bay It was nearly a year ago when we started planning to create a Hitchcock inspired series in Devon, England. This photograph is a play on the Hitchcock masterpiece - The Birds. The photograph places British models David Gandy and Bella di Lorenzo in a banged-up 1961 Sunbeam Rapier with the Atlantic Ocean as the backdrop. I know the area well and the image was easy to preconceive, but damn hard to capture. The topography of the coast here in Devon is not dissimilar to the film location of Bodega Bay in northern California and I found a road location that would work well with the morning light. I wanted a big sky and a layered narrative, so I knew long before we shot that I would be working with a wide-angle lens from the car bonnet, with limited depth of field. I rather liked the fencing behind as well - so reminiscent of the opening scene in Jaws - 2 iconic horror films rolled into one. David is a total professional and Bella is an intelligent young star who can assume a role quickly, so the problem was always going to be the gull. They are not shy in this part of the world and regularly dive-bomb our dog. But getting seagulls to dive - in the way they did with Tippi Hedren in the movie - was a challenge, especially in a limited time period. The eye to eye contact is bang on - better than we could have hoped for and I think everyone did a very solid job. Today is #EarthDay What a privilege it is to live on this planet. We rent it, we don't own it. Let us not forget that. A picture can indeed sometimes say a thousand words. #EarthDay2021
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