ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT

Words from David:

In January 2019, I revisited an old saloon, high in the mountains of western Montana. The Pioneer Bar embodies everything I look for in a final frontier setting and I know my angles and my light here. That day there were some of the usual suspects at the bar and then a rather unusual one in Cindy Crawford.

I took an important photograph that day which we consequently called The Unusual Suspects and it became coveted. The cinematic image has now sold out and in so doing, raised over $750,000 for the University of Wisconsin’s Paediatric Cancer Care hospital in Madison; an acclaimed institution long supported by Cindy. It has been one of my best-selling images of recent years and I understand why it resonates with so many collectors. The rich “wild west” characters speak for themselves and every face is the right face. For those that own a bad ass bar, this is the badass picture to adorn the wall. Indeed, the photograph adorns my own American style bar back in the UK.

After the success of the fund-raising events hosted by Cindy and I in Madison and Chicago, and to build on the sales momentum behind The Unusual Suspects, we released a second image (The Unusual Suspects II) taken one fifth of a second earlier in that bar. The wolf is one step back from the original but his head is right within the tiny focal plane.

There are no other shots that worked that day; it is just such a difficult concept to pull off as the focus is everything and there is no margin for error.

We hope that this picture will raise another $750,000 over time for a great cause.