Chicago Nights
Chicago, IL USA – 2022
“There is a restaurant we know and love in Chicago’s Little Italy called Bruna’s. It’s a little bit of Siena stuck away in a quiet and unassuming residential street. We have filmed there before, partly because there is such a palpable sense of place and partly because the owner, Luciano, is now family.
We love familiarity with people and places, it allows us to focus on being creative immediately rather than spending time getting up to speed on new variables. Bruna’s is a little treasure trove and if the walls could talk, I am sure there would be more people serving time in Illinois prisons. This was once a mobster’s restaurant and the food is damn good. The chef’s could not afford to make too many mistakes.
So, into Bruna’s we brought The Stanley Cup, some famous Blackhawks and a Sports Illustrated Swimwear cover girl. What could possibly go wrong? We threw a little bit of snow into the mix, as I associate Chicago with the cold, and, after all, these are ice hockey players, not surfers.
I think it turned out rather well and everyone had the best of times.” – David Yarrow
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE: Edition of 20 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 52" x 101” in (132.08 cm x 256.54 cm)
- Framed Image: 67" x 116” in (170.18 cm x 294.64 cm)
STANDARD: Edition of 20 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 37” x 72” in (93.98 cm x 182.88 cm)
- Framed Image: 52” x 87” (132.08 cm x 220.98 cm)
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Last Supper in Chicago
The Last Supper in Chicago
Chicago, IL USA – 2022
Exclusive Limited Edition Series
(Seth Jones, Max Domi, Chris Chelios, Jonathan Toews, Corey Crawford, Roxanne Redfoot, Marian Hossa, Patrick Kane, Denis Savard, Michal Roszival, Duncan Keith, Adam Burish, Ben Eager)
In celebration of the life and career of three-time Stanley Cup champion, Hall of Fame inductee and five-time NHL All -Star Marián Hossa.
World renowned photographer David Yarrow has created a series of photographs of Marián Hossa with his three-time Stanley Cup teammates, NHL “Hall of Fame” legends and current Blackhawk stars – three generations of champions in this homage to greatness-of heroes and a city that is beloved throughout the world.
Artist Statement:
Tomorrow evening, at the United Center in Chicago, legendary Slovakian hockey player – Marián Hossa – will have his shirt retired in front of 24,000 adoring and thankful Blackhawks fans.
Less than 48 hours ago, Marián was joined by two other Chicago “Hall of Famers”, Chris Chelios and Denis Savard and nine other Blackhawks stars to collaborate with me on an idea that had been marinating in my mind for some time.
My concept was to merge in unity, two of Chicago’s most precious possessions, its architecture and its beloved Blackhawks. This is a proud city and ‘Chicagoites’ hold these assets close to their hearts.
My creative leaning was to play around with the idea of a Last Supper, after all, Chicago is also renowned for its food and a play on the masterpiece legitimized a reason for the player positions. I also wanted to build a sense of the cold into the narrative but this didn’t need much effort as it was freezing on the river on Thursday night.
I had never previously met any of these sportsmen but was most impressed by their charm and enthusiasm for the project which will raise funds for disadvantaged former players. I know some of these guys are very famous but they wear their fame with the lightest of touch. The photograph will be unveiled tomorrow in Chicago and will be available for purchase through our excellent gallery representative in the city, Hilton | Asmus Contemporary.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE - Edition of 20:
- Framed: 56” x 69” in (142.2 cm x 175.3 cm)
- Framed: 71” x 84” in (180.3 cm x 213.4 cm)
STANDARD - Edition of 20:
- Framed: 37” x 45” in (93.98 cm x 114.3 cm)
- Framed: 52” x 70" in (132.1 cm x 177.8 cm)
CHARITY - Edition of 50:
- Framed: 30” x 36” in (76.2 cm x 91.44 cm)
- Framed: 45” x 51" in (106.7 cm x 129.5 cm)
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Chicago Bear
Chicago, USA – 2019
Archival Pigment Print
- Image Size: 37” x 41" in (93.98 × 104.14 cm)
- Framed Size: 48” x 52” (121.9 × 132.1 cm)
Large: Edition of 12 + 3 APs
- Image Size: 56” x 63.5" in (142.2 × 161.3 cm)
- Framed Size: 67” x 74.5" in (170.2 × 189.2 cm)
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Sweet Home Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 2017
Chicago is a magnificent city. It is the home of modern architecture and has one of the most beautiful skylines in the world. The people of Chicago are sophisticated and globally minded. Yet, when you pass someone on the street, you will be greeted with a welcoming smile. Our city rests on the shores of one of the greatest lakes in the world with a magnificent river that runs through it. From its architecture to its geographic location, Chicago is ranked as one of the top cities in the world. Ask anyone who visits our city.
Last November, legendary photographer David Yarrow made the journey from London to Chicago with a vision of photographing a wolf in our city. After hours of shooting into the night, David and his team brilliantly captured this magnificent animal in the foreground of our city’s most prominent architecture along the Riverwalk off of Wacker Drive.
We would like to give special thanks to the City of Chicago, the Chicago Film Office and the Chicago Police Foundation for their support with permits, location and for making this possible.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 56" x 83" (143 cm x 211 cm)
- Framed: 67" x 94" (171 cm x 239 cm)
STANDARD - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 37" x 55" (94 cm x 140 cm)
- Framed: 48" x 66" (122 cm x 168 cm)
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It's Only A Matter Of Time
Chicago, IL 2017
I have a paranoia of the mundane and maybe this picture exposes that trait.
The idea came to me as I walked back to my hotel from a charity dinner in Chicago in the autumn. I was a few glasses of red the wrong side of sober.
The city has the most visually intoxicating architecture in America and at the cross point of the river and Michigan Avenue, there is space to breathe and find a full frame, as opposed to a brutally vertical perspective. This distinguishes central Chicago from Manhattan. It is truly a stunning location, particularly at night. The incumbent US President chose his asset location well.
Taking my audacious and challenging preconception linearly through to its conception in the middle of a cold Chicago night involved a huge amount of team work and resolve and I thank everyone for their roles – especially the wolf and Chicago PD. (whose charitable foundation will rightly benefit from the proceeds of print sales)
I have closed down bars in my time, but never whole streets in a city centre . We started at 11pm and finished at 3 am.
I know there is a thin line between creative courage and insanity, but I like to push boundaries.
It is up to the viewer to determine my reason for the title. I could be referring to the clock in the famous neo gothic tower behind the Chicago Tribune building or indeed the onset of winter. But there is a less subliminal and rather topical message that is stamped emphatically all over the image. It is surely now “just a matter of time”.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 56" x 74" (143 cm x 188 cm)
- Framed: 67" x 85" (171 cm x 216 cm)
STANDARD - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 37" x 49" (94 cm x 125 cm)
- Framed: 48" x 60" (122 cm x 153 cm)
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Goodfellas
Chicago, Illinois 2019
Like so many, I have long been drawn to gangster films – and the director Martin Scorsese is one of my great inspirations. Chicago is the home of the mobster and I was determined to capture the mood of the Al Capone and Prohibition era in a single frame. To my mind this demanded a location canvas that could substantiate the narrative. I homed in on the old Italian Neighbourhood in Chicago – where thousands of Italians used to live in the 1920s and 1930s. Around 24th street and Oakley, it was a tight knit community with roots in Tuscan towns such as Lucca.
On an intersection on 24th Street there is a well known Italian restaurant – Bruna’s, that was around at the time of Al Capone. Bruna – an Italian lady – owned the joint for many years and allegedly had fatally knifed a couple of customers during her tenure. Her portrait still holds court in the dining area.
I visited on the premise of being hungry and I knew immediately there was potential. The current owner – Luciano from Siena – was willing to cooperate so long as some cash changed hands and he could be an extra in the image. Both requests seemed reasonable, besides historical precedent suggests that this was no place to argue with the patrons.
The casting couch was entertaining as it was difficult to distinguish between those who were acting and those who were the real deal. I could only vouch for two of them – Luciano, on the far left of the photograph and Josie Canseco, who played her role brilliantly as she always does. The formation worked to the side of the bar – what a bunch.
After the shoot was wrapped, one of the mobsters – going by the name of Donny Greco – brought out his music box and we all sang Frank Sinatra and drank Italian white for an hour. My kinda town, Chicago is.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 56" x 94" (143 cm x 239 cm)
- Framed: 67" x 105" (170 cm x 267 cm)
STANDARD - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 37" x 62" (94 cm x 158 cm)
- Framed: 48" x 73" (122 cm x 186 cm)
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Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 2019
This is is a big photograph of a big street in a big city. La Salle in Chicago, looking towards the Chicago Board of Trade building, is an iconic American urban view. Sam Mendes used it in the mobster classic – The Road to Perdition – and it has been glorified in many Batman iterations.
Chicago is urban beauty at its best and the presence of such a big building at the end of a street offers opportunities that Manhattan simply does not give. The eye is grabbed and then led deep into the vortex of Gotham.
I wanted a story that was cinematic and visceral and my founding principal was that we had to shoot at night. We could then wet the road to enhance reflections and deliver mood and use smoke machines to give the scene a gangster throwback feel. I spent a few hours in daylight on several intersections of La Salle pondering my lens selection and the right position. is aspect of the job was under my control and I had to get it right.
There was a riddle in that the Chicago Police Department was wonderful, but understandably would only close down the street after midnight, by which time the Board of Trade has switched off the flood lights on its iconic building. This was a problem and we had to move one of these variables in our favour. With some charm and a few dollars, the Board of Trade agreed to help us and the lights went back on until 4am.
I deliberately played with verticals in the composition because I felt that the retro Northern Trust sign was a useful vertical twin to the Board of Trade. There was a consistent play on height – so why not supplement this with a tall gangster and then most implausibly a tall wolf?
Great photographs can be looked at for a long time. I will leave others to decide if this is a great image, but I do know that it can be looked at for a very long time.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 56" x 79" (143 cm x 201 cm)
- Framed: 67" x 90" (171 cm x 229 cm)
STANDARD - Edition Size: 12
- Image: 37" x 52" (94 cm x 132 cm)
- Framed: 48" x 63" (122 cm x 160 cm)
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