Henry Gold (born c. 1934) is an Australian

photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...

and

environmental activist The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists advoc ...

. Gold emigrated to Australia from his native Austria in 1955, joined a hiking society (the

Sydney Bush Walkers Club The Sydney Bush Walkers Club is a bushwalking club in Australia. Formed in 1927 by Myles Dunphy at the behest of the Mountain Trails Club, the group was originally called the Waratah Walking Club, but was renamed early on. Unlike its predecesso ...

) and took up wilderness photography. His interest in landscape photography led him to travel to America, where he studied the work of photographers such as

Ansel Adams Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...

. In the 1960s, his work was used in a campaign to protect the

Colong Caves The Kanangra-Boyd National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Central Tablelands region, west of the Southern Highlands and Macarthur regions, in New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The national park is situated appro ...

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, and from this point onwards Gold's work began to receive wider attention. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2006 for "service to wilderness preservation through the use of photographic documentation".

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