Rear View Mirror (B&W)
Lake Tahoe, California – 2024
Archival Pigment Print
“I am a student of the Alfred Hitchcock brand of storytelling and there may be something rather Hitchcockian about this narrative. The beautiful girl, driving an equally beautiful car, through the most extreme of winter passes, with a wolf perched high above analysing the situation. All the assets in play seem to complement each other, but only one party is perhaps alive to all the facts – the wolf.
Tall snow berms like the ones in the photograph are not easy to find these days and our research led us to Lake Tahoe in late April. The Sierra Nevada Mountain range still gets hefty 3-foot snowfalls in March; perhaps as much as any ski area in the world and this is where we focused our efforts.
Meanwhile, the 1953 250MM Ferrari, is a precious car and we needed to be very sure there was easy access to this location. So I guess we were being greedy as we wanted deep accumulations of snow, along with fresh snow on a newly ploughed road and then, somehow or other, the means to get the Ferrari in position on the bend in the road. We have little appetite for doing banal things that come easy.
When we arrived, the height of the berms offered an opportunity to use the black wolf we sometimes bring on set. It was not a preconceived idea and we remind ourselves that it is good occasionally simply to adapt to circumstance as you find them.
As always, we thank Brooks Nader for being such a laugh to work with on set – as well as being on point in her role playing.” – David Yarrow
Available sizes
Large: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 56” x 60” in (142.2 cm x 152.4 cm)
- Framed Image: 71” x 75” in (180.3 cm x 190.5 cm)
Standard: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 37” x 40” in (93.98 cm x 101.6 cm)
- Framed Image: 52” x 55” in (132.1 cm x 139.7 cm)
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Ferrari II (Colour)
Amboy, California – 2023
Archival Pigment Print
In the 1950s, the Californian Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. “The Mother Road”, as John Steinbeck described it in The Grapes of Wrath, became the route of flight for the American Middle Class; a trend accelerated by the rapidly evolving Californian economy and the opening of Disneyland in 1955.
The stretch of road heading east near Amboy in the baking Californian desert showcases the Route 66 journey as it once was. The sense of scale offers the filmmaker a valuable tool kit and I have been drawn to this outpost for many years. It is a commitment of time to get there, but one that many road trippers make because of the iconic Roy’s Motel and Cafe which serves as the one identifiable landmark in a barren desert.
Amboy is a known known and I worried how I could break new ground because like all spectacular vistas in the US, it has been well photographed. The challenge is not in getting there, but in transcending when one does.
I called upon a Hong Kong friend who is a passionate investor in vintage cars and owns one of the most lauded and valuable collections in the world. I explained the shoot concept and he graciously offered up one his most coveted treasures – the 1953 Ferrari 250 MM Vignale Spider. It was one of only 12 built in the world and when one comes up at auction, they sell for more than a London townhouse. His team was kind enough to transport this fabled Ferrari 1,000 miles across the country, but at least when they arrived, they understood the opportunity. It was going to be a trip well made.
The design of the Ferrari was perfect as its low windscreen allowed my lens direct access into the faces of the girl (the wonderful Daniela Braga) and the wolf. They could then hold centre stage and let all the other constituent parts play off each other.
The goal of this shoot was to play on the metaphor that is Route 66. It encapsulates the American Dream, as it was the road of freedom and ambition. Go West, work hard, stay focused and enjoy the very best of lives.
We styled to the mid 1950s and I told Daniela to exude a sense of positivity. She should look, as Nat King Cole suggested, that she was “Getting her Kicks on Route 66”.
Hard not to in that Ferrari.
Available sizes
Large: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 56” x 59” in (142.2 cm x 149.9 cm)
- Framed Image: 71” x 74” in (180.3 cm x 188 cm)
Standard: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 37” x 39” in (93.98 cm x 99.06 cm)
- Framed Image: 52” x 54” in (132.1 cm x 137.2 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your masterpiece. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Asmus Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
St Tropez
St. Tropez, France – 2024
“Brigitte Bardot enjoyed using her Albatross speedboat in St Tropez and we sensed that if we could source a vintage one, it would be a useful prop for this parody; it played emphatically to the era and the location. We did find one, but it had to come all the way from Goodwood in the UK.
The buildings in La Ponche have a weathered timelessness that I knew would serve us well and then I just needed a composition to showcase a sense of place and a sense of a very specific woman. Nadine Leopold has a breezy nonchalance that made her ideal for the role and we both knew the head angles could offer some anonymity. I have worked with Nadine before and she is a delight.
It is not easy to make someone look like someone else and to do it in a way that is nether cheap nor gratuitous. My leaning was to photograph her out of the boat as that would give us the most scope to build a wider narrative and even include some determined paparazzi on the shore.
The aluminum structure of the boat’s hull threw off some useful reflections when facing the rising sun and as this detail started to show itself, I adapted my plans and Nadine’s position. It never pays to be too prescriptive.
The goal was to take a picture with an unambiguous sense of place and sense of a specific era. This is St Tropez – the most idyllic and storied resort in the world and the place that Bardot called home.” – David Yarrow
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 56" x 87” in (142.2 cm x 221 cm)
- Framed Image: 71" x 102” in (180.3 cm x 259.1 cm)
STANDARD: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 37” x 57” in (93.98 cm x 144.8 cm)
- Framed Image: 52" x 72” in (132.1 cm x 182.9 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your masterpiece. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Asmus Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
Brigitte
St. Tropez, France – 2024
“I knew that to try and celebrate Brigitte Bardot’s St Tropez with a series of photographs would be to travel on a road littered with potholes. Whilst the idyllic charm of this most famous of seaside towns has a sense of permanency that touches only a very few communities, we would be trying to tell a story of an iconic woman without her being there. Parody or not, that is a dangerous game for a visual artist.
Locations were always going to be a central building block to this project and there were some important decisions to be made in a town that can be very busy. Early on we homed in on one area – La Ponche. It’s such an emblematic part of St Tropez: it was here that Roger Vadim rolled his cameras in “And God Created Woman” in 1958, the movie that made Bardot – his then wife – a world-wide sensation. With its narrow, cobbled streets and wider aesthetic splendour, La Ponche is the spiritual heart of St Tropez.
The harbour has several other attributes: it hasn’t changed much since 1958, it isn’t crowded with tourists at 6.45 am and furthermore, it is visually elevated in the first half hour when the sun rises from the east. It is also a practical location for an early morning shoot. La Ponche Hotel, where Bardot stayed during the making of the movie, is still very much in operation and became our own HQ for the shoot.
Gunter Sachs started romancing Brigitte Bardot in the mid 60s, she was often seen on his Riva Aquarama – Dracula. It is a boat that embodies the glamour and style of 1960s St Tropez and luckily through a long friendship with Gunter’s son Rolf, we were able to borrow Dracula for the shoot. That was a big break.
The hardest part of the jigsaw, however, was finding a balance between the model’s necessary anonymity and the sense that she could pass as Brigitte herself. We have worked with Frida Aasen before and felt confident that she could play the role prescribed. Frida had done her homework and understood her head angles and then it was simply hoping we would get one glimpse when it all aligned. She had to look the part.
I smile when I look at this photograph, in part because I sense some reward from the homework, the planning and then the spontaneity on the day. It all happened very quickly and long before most people in St Tropez were awake.” – David Yarrow
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 51" x 103” in (129.5 cm x 261.1 cm)
- Framed Image: 66" x 118” in (167.6 cm x 299.7 cm)
STANDARD: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 37” x 75” in (93.98 cm x 190.5 cm)
- Framed Image: 52" x 90” in (132.1 cm x 228.6 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your masterpiece. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Asmus Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
Le Club 55
St Tropez, France – 2024
“I have huge admiration for Patrice de Colmont – the owner of the legendary Le Club 55 on Pampelonne beach near St Tropez. My fondness for him is not a self-serving emotion derived from being allowed to shoot at this club, nor is it simply because he continues to work as hard as he does to be charming and efficient to a daily clientele that in peak summer can exceed 800 covers. It is more because Le Club 55 has retained a unique vibe for decades. That is some trick for a famous restaurant and one achieved by so few. The credit for that must go to him and his daughter Camille.
Patrice has a cool insouciance that trickles down to his clientele and in so doing pays homage to the club’s roots. In 1955 Roger Vadim and his film crew who were shooting the love scenes for “And God Created Woman” mistook the driftwood furniture that Patrice’s father had laid up on his beach for a public restaurant. And so it was that Le Club 55 was born and the film’s lead – Brigitte Bardot – soon to be the world’s most famous woman – found her base camp.
There is, of course, an indulgence in life at Le Club 55, but it is accompanied by a chilled nonchalance that cannot be bottled. So many destination venues are ultimately ruined by the clientele that want to be seen there: it is the money that eventually wins the day, but here in Pampelonne, that effortless and visceral authenticity remains sacrosanct.
Here in the most idyllic part of the French Riviera, is a club that will always be sovereign and I sense that the behaviour is self-policed. In some ways it reminds me of Augusta, Georgia: the clientele may be very different, but the guiding principle is a deference to the past.
I wanted the picture to tell a story of people protecting their story, their beach and their club.” – David Yarrow
AVAILABLE SIZES:
LARGE: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 51" x 103” in (129.5 cm x 261.1 cm)
- Framed Image: 66" x 118” in (167.6 cm x 299.7 cm)
STANDARD: Edition of 12 + 3 AP
- Image Size: 37” x 75” in (93.98 cm x 190.5 cm)
- Framed Image: 52" x 90” in (132.1 cm x 228.6 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your masterpiece. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Asmus Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
Cachalote Fluke
Dominica, 2018
A virtuous mind and voice in conservation photography and one of the most influential female photographers in the world, Cristina Mittermeier began her career as a Marine Biologist working in her native Mexico.
For the past twenty-five years, she has dedicated herself to inspiring a global audience to care about the delicate balance between human well-being and healthy ecosystems.
Cristina’s work has exhibited at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, The Miller Gallery in Cincinnati, The Paul Nicklen Gallery in New York, Xposure in the UAE , Art Basel Miami, Terras de Salitre/Mar de Mares Festival in Santiago, The Museum of Plastic Pop-Up in New York, The United Nations Headquarters in association with Disney and Girl Up, and at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden.
Cristina is the co-founder of SeaLegacy, the founder and former president of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a board member for the WILD Foundation, an advisor on two major Conservation International programs, an esteemed public speaker, and a recipient of multiple internationally recognized awards for her photography. In 2016, Cristina received the Imaging Award for Photographers who Give Back and in 2018 was acknowledged as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.
She is the editor of 26 conservation photography books and her Fine Art Coffee Table book, Amaze, is in its second printing.
Today, Cristina is the Co-founder of the conservation society, SeaLegacy, a National Geographic contributing photographer, a Sony Artisan of Imagery and the editor of 26 coffee table books on conservation issues. She is the first female photographer to reach 1M followers on Instagram and was a 2018 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. She is acknowledged as one of the most Influential Women in Ocean Conservation in 2018 by Ocean Geographic, and The Men’s Journal recently named her as one of the 18 Most Adventurous Women in the World.
Cristina is a pioneer in the use of powerful and emotive imagery to propel conservation efforts. Born in Mexico, Cristina is a marine biologist, photographer, and writer who specializes in issues surrounding fisheries and indigenous cultures.
Available size options with and without framing are below;
Archival pigment print - Edition of 6 + 3AP
- 20" × 30" in (50.8 cm × 76.2 cm)
- 32" × 48" in (81.3 cm × 121.9 cm)
- 40" × 60" in (101.6 cm × 152.4 cm)
- 50" × 75" in (127 cm × 190.5 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your artwork. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
All That Glitters
Bahamas , 2021
“As the setting sun doused the islands in fiery gold, a flock of flamingos belted their joyful, if not a little off-key, chorus. Their honks and throaty chirps carried across the sparkling shallows to where I had waded out with my camera. When photographers talk about capturing the moment, we are not just freezing time in a two-dimensional capsule; we’re creating something that continues to evolve. That’s the difference between the pictures I snap and the ones I make where my subjects take on new life in an art print. In this moment, I felt an overpowering sense of awe for the beauty of the Bahamas and the stirrings of nostalgia. It was close to the end of our time working within the archipelago and I already missed it. But I also knew there would be more treasures like this sunset on the next voyage.” – Cristina Mittermeier`
Available size options with and without framing are below;
Archival pigment print - Edition of 6 + 3AP
- 20" × 45" in (50.8 cm × 114.3 cm)
- 32" × 73" in (81.3 cm × 185.4 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your artwork. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
Antarctic Cascade
Antarctica, 2017
“To capture simple moments eloquently and to translate them visually so that universal human experience is recorded for future generations to see. That is all I am trying to achieve as I photograph the fluke of a large humpback whale glistening under the setting sun.” -Cristina Mittermeier
Available size options with and without framing are below;
Archival pigment print - Edition of 6 + 3AP
- 20" × 30" in (50.8 cm × 76.2 cm)
- 32" × 48" in (81.3 cm × 121.9 cm)
- 40" × 60" in (101.6 cm × 152.4 cm)
- 50" × 75" in (127 cm × 190.5 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your artwork. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
Azul
Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, 2017
“Suspended alone in the deep blue, the silhouette of a shark passes slowly below me in the fading light. It senses the subtle changes in vibrations within the water, feeling out the vast expanse of a world as mysterious to human beings as our own solar system. “Azul” reminds me of how little we truly know about life in the deep.” – Cristina Mittermeier
Available size options with and without framing are below;
Archival pigment print - Edition of 6 + 3AP
- 20" × 30" in (50.8 cm × 76.2 cm)
- 32" × 48" in (81.3 cm × 121.9 cm)
- 40" × 60" in (101.6 cm × 152.4 cm)
- 50" × 75" in (127 cm × 190.5 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your artwork. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.
Day Breaker
Northern Fjords, Norway, 2018
“Just as the morning sky blazed red over Norway’s iconic fjords, I captured this image alongside my partner Paul Nicklen as a massive bull orca surged next to our boat, challenging us to a playful race. Each time his dorsal rose above the inky surface, he emitted a powerful geyser of saltwater before diving once more. This image will always remind me of the triumph I felt when our team succeeded- along with a fleet of fellow advocates and our Tide Members- in protecting the rich waters of Lofoten from oil drilling. It’s these conservation wins that fill my sails and keep me steady on our course to restoring our planet’s oceans, no matter the obstacles.” – Cristina Mittermeier
Available size options with and without framing are below;
Archival pigment print - Edition of 6 + 3AP
- 20" × 45" in (50.8 cm × 114.3 cm)
- 32" × 73" in (81.3 cm × 185.4 cm)
- 39" × 90" in (99.1 cm × 228.6 cm)
We ship worldwide and use a multitude of providers to safely deliver your artwork. Domestic delivery and installation may also be available via Hilton Contemporary’s private art shuttle. Please inquire.