The Authors

The ACE Guide to Eucalypts Melbourne is a collaboration between an artist-photographer and an ecologist — bringing together intimate observation and rigorous science.

Vicky Shukuroglou

Author, Photographer, Artist & Educator

Vicky Shukuroglou is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, and educator. She co-authored Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia with Bruce Pascoe (Hardie Grant, 2020), creating all the photography for a book that documents sacred sites across Australia in consultation with Indigenous communities and Elders. She created all the photography for the ACE Guide to Eucalypts Melbourne.

Rod Fensham

Ecologist, University of Queensland & Queensland Herbarium

Professor Rod Fensham is an ecologist at the University of Queensland with extensive research experience in Australian flora and vegetation. He created the ACE Guide to Eucalypts: Brisbane (2021), establishing the bark-and-leaf identification method that the Melbourne guide builds upon.