Not much is known about Mundy's early life in England other than that he married Louisa Rust in Hackney, London in 1856.
[1] In Christchurch, Mundy photographed Moa skeletons under the commission of Julius von Haast for the Canterbury Museum.
In 1873, the New Zealand Government used some of these prints for the Vienna Exhibition and in 1875 he published a book called Rotomahana - The Boiling Spring of NZ, with a foreword by Ferdinand von Hochstetter.
[2] He gave a talk to the Photographic Society of Great Britain about his experiences of taking pictures around New Zealand.
[2] This seminar became the basis of an article which Mundy had published in the British publication Photographic News.