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Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World’s Vanishing Animals and Cultures by David Yarrow

Self-taught photographer David Yarrow has released coffee table book of 70 stunning monochrome images of animals in their own habitat. It's published in affiliation with the charity Tusk, which will benefit from a percentage of sales.






The wildlife photographer David Yarrow travelled the world on the trail of endangered species. The resulting images showcase the beauty and wonder of their fragile existence

Standing chest-deep in a crocodile-infested swamp is all part of a day’s work for David Yarrow. The London-based photographer has spent more than a decade putting himself in harm’s way to gain a staggeringly intimate view of the natural world.

For the close-enough-to-touch portrait of an orangutan above, Yarrow had to immerse himself in swamp waters in the Kalimantan region of Borneo. With nothing more than his camera and a few peanuts to entice his furry subject, he was able to gain a unique eye-level perspective.

The striking photograph is just one of 200 extraordinary monochrome images featured in Yarrow’s latest book, Wild Encounters, a three-year body of work that has taken him from pole to pole, across seven continents.


Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals and Cultures


“Much of my work involves using wide-angle lenses and getting very close,” he says. “This way, the imagery is so much more immersive and there is a greater ability to capture the soul of the animal and the location.”

Yarrow’s work has a serious message, acting, he hopes, as a stark reminder of species and habitats that are threatened with extinction. To help combat this, all Yarrow’s proceeds from Wild Encounters will be donated to the Tusk Trust conservation charity to fund environmental projects across Africa.







Capturing the splendor and very soul of what remains wild and free in our world through incredibly intimate-close enough to touch-portraits, Wild Encounters chronicles legendary photographer David Yarrow's photographic exploits in the field. Driven by a passion for sharing and preserving the Earth's last great wild cultures and species, Yarrow is as much a conservationist as a photographer and artist. His work has transcended wildlife photography, and is now collected and shown as fine art in some of the most famed galleries around the world. Yarrow goes Pole-to-Pole, continent-to-continent- mountain to tundra to primordial jungle-inviting us to truly connect with a subject that we mistakenly think we have seen before. Yarrow takes the familiar- lions, elephants, tigers, polar bears-and makes them new again by creating iconic images that deliberately connect with us at a highly emotional level.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847858323







David Yarrow Wild Encounters PDF Link






Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World's Vanishing Animals and Cultures



About the Author

David Yarrow was born in Scotland and is now based in London. He was named as Young Scottish Photographer of the Year at the age of 20, and since turning his lens on the natural world, Yarrow has built an unrivalled reputation for capturing the beauty of the planet s remote landscapes and endangered animals. He is now Europe s best- selling wildlife photographer and is represented by a selection of the world s leading galleries while also being appointed as an ambassador for Nikon UK. Tusk Trust Charity, whose Royal Patron is HRH the Duke of Cambridge, will receive all Yarrow s proceeds from sales of this book to support its vital conservation projects in African countries.












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