Narelle Autio

She has won two Walkley Awards for photojournalism, two first prize World Press Photo awards, and the Oskar Barnack Award.

Narelle Autio studied at University of South Australia. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Sydney. Residence is recorded at Adelaide. Work by Narelle Autio is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria. Distinctions recorded are Oskar Barnack Award.

• Name — Narelle Autio • Birth Name — Narelle Autio • Born — 1969 • Birthplace — Adelaide, South Australia • Spouse — Trent Parke • Awards — Walkley Awards (2000, 2002) Oskar Barnack Award (2002) World Press Photo award (2000, 2002)

Narelle Autio was born in 1969 in the Adelaide suburb of Henley Beach. Autio attended art school at 17 years old after finishing her secondary education. Her first artist pursuits were painting and drawing, but during her first year of tertiary study she was exposed to photography as an artform. She completed a visual arts degree at the University of South Australia in 1990.

Autio began her career as a photojournalist at the Adelaide Advertiser in 1991, before leaving Adelaide in 1994. She travelled extensively in the UK and USA, and working for several major UK newspapers as well as being a photographer at News Limited's London bureau. In 1998 she returned to Australia, residing in Sydney this time. She was a senior staff photographer at Sydney Morning Herald until 2003, with her work including the Sydney 2000 Olympics. In 1999, Autio and then-partner (later husband) and fellow-photographer Trent Parke created the photographic series The Seventh Wave, comprising turbulent images of people the ocean, many underwater, mainly captured in black and white. The project took two years to complete, at locations including Bondi, Freshwater and Manly Beaches in Sydney, and up the coast to Bogey Hole at Newcastle, Port Macquarie, and Byron Bay. This was followed in 2002 by the series Not of this Earth. Her solo show in 2004, Watercolours, continued her exploration of Australians at leisure. She followed this in 2010 with the show The Summer of Us, a document of what is left behind on the beach, naturally and by humankind. In 2001 and 2006, Autio was selected in the Australian Art Collector magazine's "Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists". Autio joined the In-Public street photography collective in 2001. She is a founding member of Oculi, an independent, collective photographic agency. Her work is distributed by Agence Vu. In 2018, Autio and Parke made, along with filmmaker Matthew Bate, an eight-channel video work called The Summation of Force. The work launched the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival, and a virtual reality version screened in the New Frontier Program at Sundance Film Festival in the US. The work was exhibited extensively in the US, Asia, and Europe, and won the inaugural VR Award at Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam. As of August 2024 is based in Adelaide.

• 2002–2004: Dream/Life and The Seventh Wave (with Trent Parke). Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 2002; FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, 2004; Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2004 • 2018: The Summation of Force, an eight-channel video work, premiered at Sundance Film Festival

• Place in Between: The Changelings. London: Stanley/Barker, 2020..

• 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010.. • The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Autio.