June 29, 1986. The Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. Argentina has just won the World Cup, Diego Maradona is up on his teammates' shoulders with the trophy, and he looks straight down the lens of a 20-year-old photographer on assignment for The Times. That photographer was David Yarrow. The print hangs in Miami now, beside three pictures he made almost forty years later.
Maradona, 1986: where it started
Yarrow has said that Maradona "looked straight at me." That direct gaze is why the picture lasted. It was taken on film, and the quality is what film in a stadium in 1986 allowed, but nobody looks at it for the grain. It is the photograph that started a career, and it appears briefly in Asif Kapadia's 2019 documentary about Maradona.
The Miami print is Edition 35 of 40. Carousel wrote about this image at length during the 2026 World Cup, and that story is worth reading alongside this one.
Diego, 2024: going back
Thirty-eight years later, Yarrow went back to Maradona, this time on the Amalfi Coast, in the small town of Atrani. Diego is his homage to the player and to the love affair between Maradona and southern Italy that Kapadia's film captured. Yarrow opens his caption for the picture by saying, in effect, that he owes Maradona a great deal. Without that day in Mexico City, there is no career to look back on.
The print in Miami is an artist's proof, AP 2, at 37 by 65 inches unframed.
A Room With A View, 2025: the town as the subject
Yarrow stayed in Atrani. A Room With A View puts Alessandra Ambrosio on the balcony of a small bed and breakfast, looking out over one of the most photographed coastlines in the world. The view alone wasn't enough for him, so the team built a lemon grove into the frame, because nothing says Amalfi more clearly than lemons.
The picture only happened because the town said yes: the mayor, the chief of police, the landlord and a lemon gardener all helped. That is the real subject. In Yarrow's words, the view is "a view of a proper community."
The Miami print is Edition 12 of 12, the last in its edition.
Luncheon, 2026: closer to home
The newest of the four was made a short drive north of the gallery. For Luncheon, Yarrow seated the dogs of Palm Beach along one side of a long table, the way Leonardo arranged the apostles in The Last Supper, so every one of them faces the camera. The setting is the garden of one of the island's oldest private homes, under tall palms, and the nod to Slim Aarons is deliberate.
His reason for making it is the best line in the caption: "There is more canine than human diversity in Palm Beach." He considers the color version the primary one, because the pinks and greens are the island.
The Miami print is Edition 5 of 12.
Who is David Yarrow?
Yarrow was born in Glasgow in 1966. After the World Cup he covered major sporting events, then spent years in finance, founding a hedge fund that he sold in 2014 to return to photography full time. Since then he has become one of the best-selling fine art photographers in the world. At Sotheby's in London, 78 Degrees North sold for $110,000 and The Wolf of Main Street for $100,000, and his book Wild Encounters was published by Rizzoli with a foreword by Prince William.
His work also raises serious money for conservation and children's charities, through print sales and partnerships with figures like Cindy Crawford. Carousel has represented Yarrow in Miami, Atlanta and Nashville for more than six months.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I see David Yarrow photographs in Miami? At Carousel Fine Art Miami, 6737 NE 3rd Ave, by appointment. The gallery currently shows Maradona, Diego, A Room With A View and Luncheon.
What is David Yarrow's most famous photograph? His 1986 picture of Diego Maradona holding the World Cup trophy in Mexico City, taken when he was 20, is the image that started his career.
Where was A Room With A View taken? In Atrani, on Italy's Amalfi Coast, in 2025, with Alessandra Ambrosio and a lemon grove built for the shot.
What does Luncheon show? The dogs of Palm Beach seated along one side of a table, arranged like Leonardo's The Last Supper, photographed at a private estate in 2026.
Are David Yarrow photographs limited editions? Yes. Yarrow's prints are issued in limited editions with a small number of artist's proofs. In Miami: Maradona is Edition 35 of 40, Luncheon is 5 of 12, A Room With A View is 12 of 12, and Diego is artist's proof 2.
One wall, forty years
Stand at one end of the wall and Maradona is looking at a young man who doesn't yet know what the picture will do for him. Walk to the other end and there are dogs at a Palm Beach table. Somewhere between the two is a career, and it is still moving.
Private viewings at Carousel Fine Art Miami are available by appointment.