Harry Walters (photographer)

Harry Walters (1848, Uckfield – 1926) was a prominent photographer in late Victorian and Edwardian Ipswich.

[3] Originally based in Crown Street, Ipswich, he established his business at 11 St Margarets Plain, Ipswich in 1906, where it remained until his death in 1926.

[4] In addition to producing thousands of studio portraits, he also recorded local events, many of which were reproduced as postcards.

[4] He used the stage name "Harry Wilmott" appearing with a group of musicians known as the Snowflake Minstrels.

[4] Walters enjoyed producing trick photographs, including one featuring HMS Hannibal blended into a scene on Ipswich New Cut, in Ipswich dock.

Trick self portrait of Harry Walters eating his own head