In 1949 Moser travelled to Scotland to photograph leading Scottish artists and writers as an assignment for American ‘Vogue’. Poet Douglas Young studied at St Andrews and Oxford and was an important figure of the Scottish Renaissance. He became a leading member of the young Scottish National Party, and was imprisoned for refusing conscription in 1942 (where he completed 'Auntran Blads', his first book of poems). He was also a reputable translator of texts into Scots, a Greek scholar and a classics teacher.