David Parer and Liz Parer-Cook have made a life together doing what they love.The Melbourne-based couple have been exploring some of Earth’s wildest places since the late 1970s — from the Galapagos Islands to Norway, and from Australia’s outback to Antarctica.And they’ve captured these remote spots — especially the animals that live there — on film. David filming for their hit film on killer whales, Wolves of the Sea.(Supplied: D. Parer and E. Parer-Cook)With David behind the camera and Liz recording sound, they’ve produced a slew of award-winning documentaries, including several collaborations with David Attenborough.Solid research and being in the right place at the right time has helped them strike paydirt in nature documentary terms.Like in their Emmy-award winning 1993 film Wolves of the Sea, which captured for the first time the extraordinary hunting techniques of killer whales (orcas).”They’re probably our favourite animal of all time,” Liz says.’We both love wild places’Liz and David met in Melbourne in 1977 through a shared love of diving and film-making, and both worked at the ABC’s Natural History Unit.In the early days, David made several trips to Papua New Guinea on assignment, on one occasion filming for David Attenborough’s blockbuster nature series, Life on Earth. Liz joined him on some of these shoots. Liz in the 1980s
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David Parer and Liz Parer-Cook: the husband-and-wife wildlife documentary-making team
