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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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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. Come on England. Be lions. Whatever happens, you have given us all a hell of a ride. Thank you for cheering up the nation and allowing us to be proud again. The English Football Team and the NHS. Long odds on that 5 few years ago. @england #EURO2020 #ENGITA Three Lions on your Shirt I am a proud Scot, but I am even prouder to be British and I will be cheering on Harry Kane’s England team tonight. I have followed football all my life and have been lucky enough to be on the pitch at a World Cup Final; thankfully with a camera rather than a ball. This English team is not only a very gifted group of footballers, but more importantly many have become role models for the younger generation. They work hard, they stand up or indeed kneel for what is right and they have a light touch with the public. The tribal hate from up north that I grew up with has gone and the vast majority of Scots I know can't help but like this team and what they represent. Harry Kane leads by example and it was a treat for my son and I to show him and Katie around my exhibition at Maddox, London a couple of years ago. He was a gentleman and our thanks to Jay Rutland for organising it. The lion photograph on Harry’s right is thanks to Kevin Richardson, the Lion Whisperer. No one I know has done more to raise awareness for the plight of this endangered animal than Kevin. He is - like Harry - best in class. England will be lions tonight, of that I am sure. Tough game though. @harrykane @katekanex @lionwhisperersa @jayrutland @maddoxgallery #ENGDEN #EURO2020 American Idol Happy Independence Day to all our friends in America! This powerful image of a large bull bison was captured near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park. The bison is an emblematic North American animal that roamed the continent millions of years before man. When fully grown, it is a massive beast that deserves our respect and recognition. When I was researching bison, I quickly understood two things: first, that some rogue bulls carry a serious threat if their space is invaded, and second, that the adult face is both prehistoric and enormous. The bison is all about the face, and I sensed that any picture that didn’t recognize this would miss its goal. My instincts were that the image also needed to convey a sense of Yellowstone in the winter and this, combined with the need for proximity, all pointed to a ground-level, remote-control approach. To work with remotes and a prime wide angle is very much my signature style, but it is easier with elephants in Amboseli than bison in Yellowstone. This is not an easy location—our guide suggested that 95 percent of Yellowstone is out of bounds in winter. I failed about 10 times with my camera positioning, and I tweaked my lens and camera combination constantly. But on the third day at about 2:00 p.m., it all came together. The trees and the sky are helpful additions, but what a face and back structure. I haven’t seen this sort of image of a big bison before. I would like to thank Tom Murphy, one of America’s most acclaimed nature photographers, for assisting me on this assignment. We were both frustrated by the milder weather at the start of the week, but his knowledge and fireside tales of the area kept my spirits up.
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