Australian photographer (born 1969)
Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer.[1] Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she often collaborates.
Autio began exhibiting in 2000, collaborating with her husband Parke on The Seventh Wave. 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.
She has won two Walkley Awards for journalism, and two first prize World Press Photo awards and the Oskar Barnack Award for photography.
Career
Autio was born and raised in Adelaide, completing her Visual Arts degree at the University of South Australia. She began her career as a photojournalist at the Adelaide Advertiser before leaving Australia in 1994. She travelled extensively throughout the USA and Europe. In England she worked for numerous UK national newspapers as well as Australia's News Limited London bureau. Returning home in 1998 she worked as a staff photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald until 2003.
In 2001[2] and 2006,[3] 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.[4] She is a founding member of Oculi, an independent, collective photographic agency.[citation needed] Her work is distributed by Agence Vu.[1] She is based in Adelaide, South Australia.
