WORKSHOP
Intensive fungi photography workshop
– with Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak
October 10, 2025 — 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. — Museumsquartier Room D
What's not love about photography fungi?
These beautiful sculptural organisms are incredibly colorful and diverse and the perfect characters for a photographic portrait in nature. And just by documenting the mushrooms we see, each of us has the capacity to increase what the world knows about this neglected kingdom of life.
In this workshop, master fungi photographer and his partner in life and fungi, filmmaker Catherine Marciniak, will teach you how to get the best photograph of a mushroom with the camera you have in your bag, whether that is the top-of-the-line digital camera or your mobile phone.
The workshop covers:
- What to look for in fungi – the diversity of structures and forms.
- Composition, exposure, lighting, focus.
- Stephen's hot tips to improve your shots.
- Focus bracketing demonstration.
Venue
Room D is located in the Museum Quarter at Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna. Access is via Courtyard 8; the room is located on the ground floor. It's not far from the U3 Volkstheater station.
Course instructors
Stephen Axford
Stephen Axford is a world-renowned fungi photographer who lives in the subtropical region of Australia's north coast. His images and time-lapse videos of mushrooms have been featured in leading science and nature magazines, as well as in numerous acclaimed nature documentaries around the world.
Catherine Marciniak
When you watch a Planet Fungi documentary, short or long, it is Catherine Marciniak behind the camera and the person beavering away at the edit desk. Prior to her obsession with fungi, she worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was an Independent Documentary for over 30 years.
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