Scottish, b. 1966)

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
David Yarrow was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1966. He took up photography at an early age and as a 20 year old, he found himself working as a photographer for The London Times on the pitch at the World Cup Final in Mexico City. On that day, David took the famous picture of Diego Maradona holding the World Cup and as a result, he was subsequently asked to cover the Olympics and numerous other sporting events. But he refused to be pigeonholed and his interests expanded as he grew into himself. It was only many years later, that he found his true comfort zone in documenting the natural world and the last eight years have been career defining.

Yarrow’s evocative and immersive photography of life on earth is most distinctive and it has earned him an ever growing following amongst art collectors. His large monochrome images made in Los Angeles are on display in many leading galleries and museums across Europe and North America and his work is also a regular feature at established art fairs. By the spring of 2017, he had firmly established himself as one of the bestselling fine art photographers in the world, with the limited edition prints (just 12 in an edition) regularly selling at over $40,000 a piece and his well-received recent work is now priced even higher.

At the Sotheby’s photography auction in London in May – Yarrow’s iconic image from South Sudan – Mankind – was sold for $75,000 – the highest of the 100 lots in the show. In April the following year David’s image “The Wolf of Main Street” sold for $100,000 and was the highest bid for piece by a living photographer and most recently “78 Degrees North” went for an impressive $110,000.

In 2016, Rizzoli New York published his latest book – Wild Encounters – with a foreword written by HRH The Duke of Cambridge (Prince William). The book was awarded “Art Book of 2017” by Amazon and has already sold out a second print run. All Yarrow’s royalties from the book continue to be donated to Tusk, the leading British NGO, that focuses on animal conservation in Africa.
Philanthropy and conservation are indeed central to David Yarrow’s passion to document the animal and human world in a fresh and creative way. In 2017, charitable donations from the sale of David’s images exceeded $1.2 million, with four of David’s pieces raising $186,000 in just a few minutes at the Tusk Gala dinner in New York City in April 2017.

In North America, he is represented by two leading photographic galleries in Holden Luntz in Palm Beach and Izzy in Toronto, as well as broader art galleries such as Samuel Lynne in Dallas and Miller in Cincinnati. In Europe, David has a very strong presence in the Baltic – with Oslo, Antwerp and Amsterdam all key venues. David’s most recent partners Maddox have been extremely popular in both London and Gstaad.

Yarrow’s position in the industry has been rewarded with a wide range of advisory and ambassadorial roles. In conservation, he is an ambassador for WildArk, on the advisory board of Tusk and Ambassador to the Kevin Richardson Foundation (@lionwhisperersa). In 2017 Land Rover also appointed David as a global ambassador and creative partner. He is the European ambassador for Nikon and has recently been integral to the companies most anticipated Camera release of the last decade. In December 2017 he shot TAG Heuer’s latest campaign with Cara Delevingne.

His status as an artist and conservationist was confirmed in June 2017 when he was invited for a private lunch with President George W. Bush in Dallas, Texas.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019, Pamela Anderson by David Yarrow, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles
2019, David Yarrow: Off Road & After Hours, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach
2019, Greenwich Winter Sale & Giving Days, Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, Greenwich
2018, It's Five O'Clock Somewhere, Maddox Gallery, London
2018, David Yarrow: Relentless, Samuel Lynne Galleries, Dallas
2018, WILD ENCOUNTERS, Petra Gut Contemporary, Zürich
2018, Wild Encounters by David Yarrow, Art Angels, Los Angeles
2018, David Yarrow, Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach
2018, The Untouchables II, Maddox Gallery, London
2018, 2017, David Yarrow - Fontainebleau Exhibition, Maddox Gallery, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019, Summer Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad
2019, Summer Contemporary - Shepherd Market, Maddox Gallery, London
2019, Spring Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles
2019, Spring Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London
2019, Spring Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London
2019, Winter Contemporary, Maddox Street, Maddox Gallery, London
2019, Winter Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London
2019, Winter Contemporary, Maddox Gallery, London
2018, Best of British, Maddox Gallery, Gstaad
2018, 10th Annual Greenwich Holiday Stroll Weekend 2018, Isabella Garrucho Fine Art, Greenwich

FAIR BOOTHS:
2019, Petra Gut Contemporary at Photo Basel 2019, Petra Gut ContemporaryHolden Luntz Gallery at Photo 2019, London 2019, Holden Luntz Gallery
2019, Holden Luntz Gallery at The Photography Show 2019, presented by AIPAD, Holden Luntz Gallery
2019, Samuel Lynne Galleries at LA Art Show 2019, Samuel Lynne Galleries
2019, Holden Luntz Gallery at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2019, Holden Luntz Gallery
2018, Maddox Gallery at Art Miami 2018, Maddox Gallery
2018, Hilton Asmus at SOFA CHICAGO 2018, Hilton Asmus
2018,Maddox Gallery at Texas Contemporary 2018, Maddox Gallery
2018,Hilton Asmus at Art Aspen 2018, Hilton Asmus
2018,Maddox Gallery at Market Art + Design 2018, Maddox Gallery