Overview
Harry Moult was an electrical engineer who took up photography in 1920 and rapidly gained success within the Wellington Photographic Society. In 1924, with three others, he formed a breakaway group, the Wellington Camera Circle, which concentrated solely on pictorialist photography. During a business trip to the UK in the late 1920s he commissioned the printing of his best negatives by the carbon process. These were exhibited at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts upon his return to Wellington in 1930.
Moult’s work is head and shoulders above most of his contemporaries for its consistent quality and (thanks to the carbon printing) technical perfection and excellent state of preservation today. This selection includes work by Moult made in the UK and Europe, as well as NZ, and includes four albums of smaller size images that help convey the extent of his work.