30-Apr-19 – If David Yarrow just wants to repopulate downtown Chicago with wild wolves, he is going about it in a slow and expensive way.

The fine art photographer from London, whose large prints of wildlife sell for tens of thousands of dollars, has created a second photograph featuring a wolf in downtown Chicago.

This time, the wolf is on LaSalle Street – not far from its first modeling assignment on the Chicago Riverwalk.

“I have always been drawn to Chicago,” said Yarrow recently. “It is urban beauty at its very best and offers visuals along the river and to the south of the river that Manhattan cannot match.”

After a few days of scouting locations, Yarrow picked LaSalle Street, looking south from Washington Street. The Chicago Board of Trade Building at the south end of LaSalle, he says, “offers opportunities that Manhattan simply does not give. The eye is grabbed and then led deep into the vortex of Gotham.”

A filming permit was issued for Yarrow by the Chicago Department of Transportation for the photo shoot on April 17 and April 18. The selected image was captured at 1:30 and Yarrow says they finished at about 4:00 on the morning of April 18. (Left) Yarrow directs the photo shoot on LaSalle Street.

The Board of Trade Building did present a challenge. According to Yarrow, LaSalle could only be closed after midnight, but by that time flood lights on the building were switched off.

“With some charm and a few dollars, the Board of Trade agreed to help us, and the lights went back on until 4 a.m.”

Yarrow says the budget for the photo shoot in the Loop was his biggest yet for a single location.

The image will be sold in sizes up to 90 inches wide at Hilton-Asmus Contemporary, an art gallery on North Wells Street.

Yarrow calls the image “a big photograph of a big street in a big city” and “an iconic American urban view.”

On November 29, 2017, a stealthy late-night photo shoot on the Chicago Riverwalk featured a fashion model and a gray wolf from Montana. Titled It Is Just a Matter of Time, the image shows the wolf on the Riverwalk east of Wabash Avenue and across from Trump International Hotel & Tower.

(Right) Yarrow in front of his 2015 photograph, Wolf of Main Street, at Hilton-Asmus Contemporary in River North.

Yarrow, age 53, was born in Scotland and currently lives in London. He is also a financier, having founded the London-based hedge fund Clareville Capital in 1995.