Narelle Autio | |
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Born | Narelle Autio 1969 (age 54–55) Adelaide, South Australia |
Spouse | Trent Parke |
Awards | Walkley Awards (2000, 2002) Oskar Barnack Award (2002) World Press Photo award (2000, 2002) |
Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. She 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. She has won two Walkley Awards for photojournalism, two first prize World Press Photo awards, and the Oskar Barnack Award.
Early life and education
Narelle Autio was born in 1969 in the Adelaide suburb of Henley Beach.
She completed a visual arts degree at the University of South Australia in 1990.
Career
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.
Publications
Books by Autio
- Place in Between: The Changelings. London: Stanley/Barker, 2020. ISBN 978-1-913288-14-3.
Books with contributions by Autio
- 10 – 10 Years of In-Public. London: Nick Turpin, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9563322-1-9.
- The Street Photographer's Manual. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0-500-29130-6. By David Gibson. Includes a chapter on Autio.
Films
- The Summation of Force – eight-channel film directed by Autio, Parke, and Matthew Bate in 2017
Exhibitions
- 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
Recognition and awards
- 2000: Walkley Awards, Australia
- 2001: First prize, Nature stories category, World Press Photo Award 2000, with Trent Parke (for "Australian Roadkill" series)
- 2001: listed as one of the 50 most collected Australian artists by Art Collector magazine
- 2002: Walkley Awards, daily life category for "School of Dance", Australia
- 2002: First prize, Arts and Entertainment category, World Press Photo Award 2001
- 2002: Oskar Barnack Award for her series Coastal Dwellers (the only Australian thus far to win the award)
- 2001: again listed as one of the 50 most collected Australian artists by Art Collector magazine
- 2018: VR award at Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, for The Summation of Force
References
- ^ "Narelle Autio". Agence Vu. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ Fuss, Eloise (14 August 2024). "Australian photographer Narelle Autio turns jetty jumping into mesmerising underwater images". ABC News. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "Narelle Autio: CV + BIO". Hugo Michell Gallery. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- "The Seventh Wave". Magnum Photos. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- "Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists". Art Collector. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
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- "Narelle Autio". In-Public. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- "Oculi welcomes 9 new members, and celebrates 20 years". Capture Magazine. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
- "Closer Productions". Closer Productions. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- "Autio and Parke win Imagine VR Award". Hugo Michell Gallery. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- Buckmaster, Luke (6 October 2017). "If virtual reality is film's next big thing, how long will it take to get right?". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- "Trent Parke and Narelle Autio's The Summation of Force". The Adelaide Review. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- "Narelle Autio". Stills Gallery. Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- "Autio, Narelle (1969 - )". womstralia.info. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- "2000, Narelle Autio & Trent Parke, 1st prize, Nature stories". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- "Herald cleans up in Walkleys, taking gold". smh.com.au. 29 November 2002. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- "2001, Narelle Autio, 1st prize, Arts and Entertainment". World Press Photo. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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- "Beach pictures: It's just another prize-winning day out there", Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 2002. Accessed 24 May 2014.