The hand of Brian Harman with his elephant Elsie for A Show of Hands by Tim Booth

Brian Harman - Zoo Keeper

£250.00

“Brian Harman - Zoo Keeper”

24” x 20” / 60.96 x 50.8cm (Edition of 8)

20” x 16” / 50.8 x 40.64cm (Edition of 25)

16” x 12” / 40.64 x 30.48cm (Edition of 50)

A Limited Edition Fine Art print of a Tim Booth photograph from the collection A Show Of Hands printed to exacting standards on Archival Giclée Hahnemühle Photo Rag 305gsm fine art paper. Your print will be produced to order, signed, dated and numbered by the artist, and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity stamped with the artists seal.

The Story.

Brian Harman with Elsi at London Zoo. Brian was a Zoo Keeper for forty-eight years, twenty-one of which he spent with elephants. In that time h has handled more than fifty elephants from all over South East Asia. Elsie is a special case for him as he raised her himself. The elephants consider Brian to be the head of the herd – he speaks to them in Singalese and they come when he calls them by name. He say’s he’s constantly amazed by their intelligence and they often read his mind, doing things before he tells them. Normally this could be explained by routine, but their day is always varied, specifically so that mundane routine is not established.

“When my elephants see two people talking and decide that they don’t like one of them, they will try to split them up.”