Exhibitions

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Sotheby's, New York
1334 York Avenue New York, New York 10021

Lectures by Harry Frost and Sarah Louise Galbraith
Thursday September 7 at 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm respectively

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Photographs from the Opening Reception:

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Sarah Louise Galbraith: Joined at the Hippo is an around-the-world travelogue created by Sarah Louise Galbraith, a photographer from Arizona. Sarah traveled on her own to 33 countries across the world from January 2004 - January 2005 photographing as many hippos in zoos as possible. What for? The photos are being hand-painted onto porcelain dinner service by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. Juggling a strict itinerary (every four days was a new city ), she hassled taxi drivers, struggled with languages (what's hippo in Mandarin??), quizzed locals and bribed zoo keepers through 101 of the world's best and worst zoos. Her encounters ranged from frightening (hippo attacks in Kyoto and muggings in Warsaw ), to hilarious (meeting with hippo fanatics at the annual Hippolotofus Convention in Seattle). Sarah now works at National Geographic in Washington, D.C.