professional photographer, established a photographic publishing company in Britain in the mid 1850s. He came to Sydney aboard the European in 1857, bringing with him a new Petzval lens for Freeman Brothers . On the voyage out he took stereoscopic views of Cairo which he published the following year. In Sydney he photographed local buildings, including the Royal Exchange. As well, he delivered a paper on the waxed-paper photographic process to the Philosophical Society of New South Wales. After returning to London early in 1858, Haes delivered a paper 'On Photography in Australia’ to the Blackheath Photographic Society, an abstract of which was published in the Journal of the Photographic Society in March 1858. He returned to Sydney in August 1858 and four months later contributed over 300 photographs to a Philosophical Society exhibition, all either taken or collected by him, including views of the Middle East, Europe, Australia and the Crimea. Seven of his waxed-paper photographs of Australian subjects were included in the Photographic Society’s 1858 exhibition at the South Kensington Museum, London.

Haes photographed and co-published a set of stereographic cards titled Australian Botanical Illustrations (c.1861) which includes images of the Sydney Botanical Gardens and several views of the town and harbour. This was favourably reviewed in the British Journal of Photography . In 1864 he photographed animals in the London Zoo for a set of stereo cards he co-published, and delivered a paper to the Photographic Society on the difficulties of taking such photographs. In 1866 he completed a second series of animal stereographs and published 'Photography in the Zoological Gardens’ in the Photographic News .

Writers:

Crombie, Isobel

Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011