2021-05-06
1 小时 2 分钟Hey.
So my guest today, David Yarrow, is one of the world's best selling fine art photographers.
He spent the last decade documenting the natural world from really different perspectives and his distinctive, evocative and absolutely immersive photography of life on earth.
It's earned him a massive following amongst art collectors as a relevant artist of his generation.
His limited edition works regularly fetch record bids at auction houses like Sotheby's.
He's also a passionate philanthropist and conservationist, holds multiple ambassadorships, including those for Wild Ark Nikon, Land Rover and UBS, and has donated millions to wildlife and sustainability causes.
But here's the thing, this almost never happened.
None of it.
David's career had a bit of a false start when, on a break from university at a pretty young age, he talked his way into a World cup soccer match and captured this now legendary image of the iconic soccer star Maradona that could have launched a tremendous career.
But instead of embracing a career in photojournalism, he went back into finance, where he ended up spending decades building a big business, a big career, a big reputation, until a series of experiences led him to just shut it all down and walk away from it all and step back into this love of photography and image making and storytelling that just never left him, but doing it in a profoundly different way than he had ever thought about doing it earlier in his life.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project, so I'm excited to dive in with you.
I want to take a little bit of a step back in time because you had this fascinating history sort of moving between photography from the earliest days and finance back to photography.
And I kind of want to close the loop later in our conversation because there's some really fascinating intersections between those two worlds happening right now.
But back in the day, coming up in Glasgow, dad, I guess dad's whole side of the family, industrial shipbuilding.
And I was actually curious because, you know, it's the type of thing where very often the assumption is the kids are going into the family business, but looking at your family business, it also seems like the company was nationalized when you were ten, 1112 years old, effectively taking it out of the family's ownership.
And I'm curious, was there an expectation when you were younger that this would be your future?
And did that shift around that time?
I think nepotism is dangerous.
I think you have to be doubly good to succeed or go into a family business, because it begs so many questions from other people that don't have a blood link.