Born in 1969, Narelle Autio is a multi-award-winning photographer, whose artistic career has stretched over thirty years. In 2002, she became the first Australian woman to win the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her The Coastal Dwellers photographic series. Her complex compositions are a homage to the beauty of life in Australia: saturated colours, intense light, blue water. Among others, she has received two World Press Awards and one American Picture of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in national and international exhibitions.
