Members Insights: Stephen and Catherine, Fungi Time Lapse
We are very excited to announce our February Guest Speakers will be the world-renown duo, Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak, who will share some of their beautiful time-lapse videos on the fascinating life of fungi.
Lismore Workers' Club on Friday 18th Feb, at 10 am to 12 noon.
A bit of background about Stephen and Catherine:
Source: Planet Fungi Movie Website
Stephen Axford
Presenter and Special Effects Photography
Stephen Axford is a world-renowned fungi photographer. His images and time-lapse videos of mushrooms have been featured in leading science and nature magazines and TV shows across the globe.
Stephen Axford was an ordinary bloke who after a career in IT retired in his late 50s and took up photography.
He developed a passion for photographing mushrooms which also fed his other great love – spending time in the forest.
The beauty and scientific accuracy of Stephen’s fungi photographs captivated national and international media, fungi experts and the general public, and he developed an on-line following numbering into the millions, stretching from Patagonia to Vladivostok.
Then Stephen with his partner and filmmaker Catherine Marciniak, began capturing the wonderful world of mushrooms in time-lapse photography.
Truth is these time-lapses are all created in a shipping container come studio called the "fungarium" on Stephen and Catherine's property in the subtropical hinterland near Byron Bay, Australia.
Catherine Marciniak
Director, Writer, Editor and Cinematographer
Catherine is a senior features reporter at ABC North Coast. She joined the local bureau of Australia's public broadcaster after a successful international career as a documentary director and cinematographer.
In her spare time, she makes documentaries about the extraordinary, beautiful and sometimes bizarre world of mushrooms with her partner Stephen Axford, internationally acclaimed fungi photographer and fungi time-lapse videographer.
"Fungi is a huge obsession that has changed our lives. We love the forms, colours and the endlessly fascinating diversity of fungi. We love being in the forest. And, we love that we are helping to document one of the largest kingdoms of life on the planet. This is a new frontier of scientific discovery."
Catherine’s credits include ‘Steel City’, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, the ‘Life Series - Life At 1’ and ‘Life At 3’, 'Hospital - an unhealthy business', ‘Leagueability’, ‘Babe in the reeds’ and 'Beyond the Royal Veil'.
In her role as features reporter Catherine has produced over 40 short form documentaries for ABC TV and ABC iview.
From 2004 - 2005 she was the Series Producer of Compass, the ABC Television’s religion and ethics program.
Over the past four decades Catherine has mentored and trained hundreds of emerging screen-content makers across Australia, in the Pacific and south east Asia and in her own NSW north coast community.
An Example of Stephen and Catherine's Work
