David Yarrow is inspiring. Not because he makes wonderful pictures, creates memories, builds wonderful stories,but he shares his tacit knowledge. Kindly take a moment to reflect on this. He is sharing his life’s knowledge of photography which personally I find incredible and is truly a wonderful gift to give .
You can tell he watches a lot of movies, and likes his whiskey. I build theaters for a living, so I love movies too, but I'm 8 months sober. I used to love Scotch, but I'm trying to get my liver back to 100%. I may drink again someday, but I'm going for at least a year to prove I can do it. Previously, I went 20 years without more than 6 days off.
David your comment," if you are the smartest person in the room, get out of the room" resonates with me. If you want to grow, surround yourself with those who know more than you do. As Bob Dylan said," he not busy being born is busy dying". You reiterate that at the end to always getting better.
He is the GOAT in modern day photography techniques!! Knows his subject well, understands his limitations, goes beyond what normal photographers don’t think of. He checks most of those boxes..!!
Great interview with such a brilliant man. It would be so much fun to just go and hang out with him, while he is working, for a day or two. So much one could learn.
I've been trying to brand myself, trying to figure out what my title is going to be, choosing between photography, photographer, or photographic artist. Photographic artist is how I see myself and what the majority of my followers has suggested, but I also like David's suggestion that it's the third party to decide that. I don't want to sound pretentious or boastful either. It's tough trying to market your own work, because you want to tell people why it's better or what you had to do to get the images, but at the same time, you don't want people thinking you're a pompous ass, lol. I need to partner up with an art representative of some kind.
Hi David, what a terrible setting for an interview, you look like you being interrogated by some detective, sitting in the corner, with no art around you, come on man pick a better set up, and a team, love your work very much Mate.
