Finest-selling photographer David Yarrow in Aspen for après-ski speak

Despite being one of many world’s best-selling photographers, David Yarrow stays approachable, prioritizing in-person time with audiences.

“It’s a much better story if you say, ‘I’ve met the artist,’” Yarrow mentioned. “I’m looking forward to meeting a lot of people tomorrow and over the next couple of days.”

Yarrow will share his newest e book, “David Yarrow: The Collection,” in “An Evening of Art and Conversation” with a public speak from 3 to six p.m. on Tuesday at Casterline | Goodman Gallery at 611 E. Cooper Ave.

“The Collection” is a career-spanning retrospective of 150 pictures mixing new and best-selling images, revealed by Rizzoli, New York.

“I want to remind people that we live in a beautiful world, and we should enjoy every day as I think people in Aspen do, and to have fun. My photography is really a celebration of the world,” Yarrow mentioned. 

During the vacation season, Yarrow’s e book tour contains Aspen, Vail, Jackson, and Big Sky, with Yarrow based mostly in Aspen by means of the New Year.

“There’s no ski resort that gets more coverage [in the book] than Aspen,” Yarrow mentioned. “I think it’s the greatest, most infamous ski resort.”

Yarrow’s been visiting Aspen recurrently over the previous eight or 9 years. He’s drawn to its long-standing embrace of the humanities, particularly the interaction between bohemian creators, cowboy capitalists, and locals that outlined the scene within the Seventies and ’80s. Unlike resort cities the place artwork can really feel like an afterthought, he sees Aspen as a spot the place creativity is woven into the neighborhood’s soul.

“We’ve gone to the right locations to represent Aspen,” Yarrow mentioned, including that his native pictures had been anchored in legendary venues like J Bar at Hotel Jerome, Woody Creek Tavern, and Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro.

Yarrow will proceed his tour, visiting roughly 35 different galleries that signify his work throughout the nation. Though his enterprise is headquartered in London, Yarrow spends a majority of his time within the United States — filming, presenting, and dealing intently with galleries.

The Glasgow native’s material spans his pursuits, whether or not civil wars, sports activities stars, wildlife, celebrities, or frontier cities, and it’ll proceed to evolve. 

“The Collection” shares the artist’s journey, from being a 20-year-old on the 1986 FIFA World Cup Final and capturing the long-lasting picture of Argentina soccer participant Diego Maradona with the trophy in hand in Mexico City, to photographing nature, and extra just lately, storytelling.

Yarrow continues to refine the artwork of the images e book.

“I’m very critical of photographic books as a rule. I think a lot of them suffer because there are too many fillers in the book, and there are not enough strong pictures,” he mentioned. “There are no fillers in this book.” He provides that the ultimate edit was powerful, whittled down from a bigger pool.

Over the years, his follow has shifted from opportunistic seize to deliberate building. 

“The more recent work is much more tableau-oriented, where I’m making a picture rather than taking it,” he mentioned. 

This is a change from a decade in the past,  a change that displays each inventive evolution and sensible realities, he added.

In 2024, he appeared on Artsy’s Top 10 artists with essentially the most inquiries as the one photographer on the checklist.

Yarrow just lately labored with Team Europe forward of their victory at Bethpage on the 2025 Ryder Cup males’s golf competitors. “The picture from the Ryder Cup — that was a great honor,” Yarrow mentioned. 

He additionally takes on choose campaigns, similar to being employed by Adidas to be a photographer on the marketing campaign launch for the Official Match Ball for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The royalty charges from “The Collection” can be donated to Yarrow’s charity companions. David Yarrow Photography has raised greater than $25 million for charities by means of the sale of his work since 2018, in accordance with a press launch. The focus, whereas initially on conservation, shifted to healthcare and most cancers care.

“Every time I am fortunate enough to meet people in these fields, it motivates me to do better,” Yarrow mentioned in a press launch.

In 2023, he arrange the David Yarrow Family Foundation to boost additional funds for most cancers care and analysis and to help causes in Scotland. 

For extra data, go to davidyarrow.photography or casterlinegoodman.com/viewing-room/37-david-yarrow-new-releases/davidyarrow.photography.