TALK – The Fungal Awakening

The Fungal Awakening and Funga Obscura

Alison will also be holding a talk on The Fungal Awakening, alongside the launch of her new book Fungi Obscura.

The earth’s rapidly changing climate and environmental issues have come into sharp focus through the demise of charismatic megafauna and the ‘biodiversity crisis’. But what about stinkhorns and slime moulds?

How do fungi and their kin get our attention when they’re overshadowed by more ‘popular’ organisms?

The good news is we’re in something of a ‘fungal awakening’ as fungi finally take the spotlight, nudge their way into conservation and capture the public imagination.

Alison’s latest book is about fungi, and the photography of fungi.

The title – Funga Obscura – unites the two.

Beginning in elemental landscapes of ice and rock, the book traces the evolutionary path of fungi as enablers of life on land, and creators of soils and forests.

Crossing continents and ecosystems, we navigate lichen-covered landscapes, crawl in the fungal undergrowth, scale glacial extremes and duck between rainforest shadows.

Please join us at Fullers Bookshop to hear some stories of her adventures in the photographing and writing of the book.

Signed copies of Funga Obscura and Alison’s previous titles will be available for purchase.