Primary school teacher George Konstantinidis is an amateur mycologist who transformed the world of Greek mycology.
Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak were lucky enough to steal a day of his time to chat to him about his forays into the Kingdom of Fungi, the mushrooms of Greece, the best way to pick a boletus,
and why he calls the body of fungus - mother mycelium.
Music courtesy of Manitarock - George's mushroom rock band.
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About Stephen
Stephen's images of mushrooms have featured in leading science and nature magazines across the globe, and his time-lapses of fungi growing are in many documentaries including Planet earth 2, Fantastic Fungi, Hostile Planet, Our Planet and The Kingdom; how fungi made the earth. He even has a mushroom named after him – Panaeolus axfordii. He has been invited to document the fungi in Nepal, India, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Mexico and Chile, and of course it is a constant obsession in the fungi hotspots of Tasmania, the NSW north coast and southern Queensland in Australia. He is a Sony Australia ambassador.
About Catherine
Catherine has had a successful international career as a documentary director and cinematographer and as an ABC Features Reporter. Credits include ‘Steel City’, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, the ‘Life Series’, ‘Hospital-an unhealthy business, ‘Dino Stampede’, ‘Babe in the Reeds’ and 'Beyond the Royal Veil'. Over her career she has won a number of awards including a Golden Dragon for Science Programming for the project “The Life Series”, also a Finalist in the Logie Awards, and the documentary project 'Leagueability' was a finalist in the Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism.