Maurice Harvey is probably the most widely travelled photojournalist from New Zealand having been to 160 countries and territories. His travels began in Africa in 1960 where for seven years he lived in Central and West Africa, then in later years, paid numerous visits covering thirty seven countries of the continent. The independence movement was sweeping Africa bringing with it not just freedom and liberty, but in far too many cases, injustice and hardship. In 1979 he became the official photojournalist of the United Bible Societies, the world's largest publishing organisation, a position he held for nearly 20 years. His other photography has been used by many of the world's leading publishers such as the BBC, the ten volume Grand Larousse encyclopedique, Macmillian, Readers Digest, BBC, C.U.P., O.U.P., Open University, Microsoft and many others. Plus local papers and periodicals of his own country and many others around the world. His published work earned him the coveted Licentiate of the Master Photographers Association (United Kingdom).
