Bruce Fuhrer is a well-known naturalist and one of Australia's leading botanical photographers. He is the author, co-author and illustrator of several botanical publications on fungi, mosses liverworts and wildflowers. He worked in the School of Biology at Monash University for 25 years and was awarded an Honorary Master of Science degree by Monash University in 1988. In 1989 he was awarded The Australian Natural History medallion.