Press Release

Lipkowitz Returns to Africa: Photography by John Lipkowitz

February 28 – March 30, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2025, 3-6 pm

510 Warren Street Gallery
510 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534

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Hours: Fridays, Saturdays 12-6, Sundays, 12-5

Hudson, NY – 510 Warren Street Gallery is happy to present an exhibition of recent photographic works by John Lipkowitz, a founding member of the gallery. The show is titled “Lipkowitz Returns to Africa” and is an iconic example of the professionalism, passion and expertise of an artist immersed in the craft and art of wildlife photography. Please join us on Saturday, March 1st from 3 to 6 pm for a reception with the artist.

This exhibit consists of aluminum photographic prints from a recent trip to Kenya. On this, the seventh African safari he and his wife Nina have experienced, the goal was primarily elephants, which for Nina included a visit to one of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust facilities where young orphans are reintroduced to the wild. For John, it was the opportunity to visit a part of Tsavo East National Park where there are still some surviving Super Tuskers, elephants with one or both tusks weighing at least 100 pounds. Perhaps as few as 85 are still alive today, their numbers having been decimated by natural deaths, occasional poaching and, if you can believe it, by legal trophy hunters if these magnificent animals wander across the open border into Tanzania.

Fortunately, the Super Tusker genes survive in Tsavo and Amboselli parks. There is also a population of Emergents, younger bulls who just might qualify as Super Tuskers given another ten or fifteen years. During a three week safari, of course, many other animal were encountered and some are represented in this show as well. Come see them all. Bring the children.