Narelle Autio’s vibrant images of Australian outback and coastal life have won her widespread acclaim. Her sophisticated use of colour, light and composition, create photographs that evoke the complex beauty of Australia’s landscape, with a focus on the human connection to nature. Describing the ocean as her muse, she has spent a lifetime in the undersea pursuing ideas of transformation, mythology and rebirth, cocooned in feminist theory.

Autio was born and raised in Adelaide, completing her studies with a Degree in Visual Arts from the University of South Australia in 1990. She began her career as a photojournalist before moving into the art world, continuing to find inspiration in the documentary traditions of candid photography.

Autio has received numerous awards and accolades. In 2002, she was chosen as the winner of the international Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her series Coastal Dwellers. Autio remains the only Australian to win this prestigious award. She has won two World Press Photo Awards, an American Picture of the Year Award and two Walkley Awards for Australian Journalism. In 2001 and again in 2005 Autio was selected in the Australian Art Collectors Magazine's "50 most collectable Australian artists". Her work has been published extensively and exhibited throughout the world and collected in various institutions across Australia and numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Autio has two published photographic books and appeared most recently in episode five of the 2024 television series Great Southern Landscapes, (Beaches) Narrated by Australian actor Rachel Griffiths, it celebrated her iconic photograph Splash.

Trent Parke, the first Australian to become a full member of the renowned Magnum Photo Agency, is considered one of the most innovative and challenging photographers of his generation. Moving beyond traditional documentary photography, Parke’s work sits between fiction and reality exploring themes of life
and death, light and shadow, space and time, and memory.

He offers an emotional and psychological portrait of his home country Australia that
is poetic and often darkly humorous.

In 2015, his major solo exhibition The Black Rose, premiered at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Featuring thousands of photographs, light boxes, video, written texts and books, the exhibition lead viewers through a vast, visual narrative that explored the meaning and transience of life from both personal and universal perspectives.

Parke has received numerous awards and accolades. He was the winner of the 2014 Photography Prudential Eye Award in Asia, has won five Gold Lenses from the International Olympic Committee, and four World Press Photo Awards. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
Parke has published nine books including his landmark publication Monument /Stanley Barker, in 2023.

Parke’s work has featured in exhibitions and art fairs across the globe and is held in major institutional collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, and Artbank.

Gus Powell was born in New York City in 1974 and attended Oberlin College, where he majored in comparative religion. In 2003 he was selected to be in PDNs 30 under 30 issue and also published his first monograph, The Company of Strangers (J&L Books). His work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo show at The Museum of The City of New York and group exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston and FOAM, NL.

His photographs have been published in Aperture, Harpers, Vogue, M le mag – Le Monde, The New York Times, Wired, Fortune, W, and The New Yorker. As a commercial photographer he has collaborated with Nordstroms, Kate Spade, Rachel Comey, Adidas, MoMA, Citibank and Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a member of the international street photographers’ collective UP and is on the faculty of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts, NY.

His work is included in the books Bystander: A World History of Street Photography and Street Photography Now. Powell’s second monograph, titled The Lonely Ones (J&L Books) was celebrated as one of the best photography books of the year, and was reprinted as a trilingual edition. His third monograph, FAMILY CAR TROUBLE (TBW Books) has become a new classic of the Automotive Parenting Bereavement genre. Powell is currently at work on a book of street photography titled 32 Preludes.

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Monaris is a Puerto Rican photographer, visual storyteller, and Sony Alpha ambassador based in New Jersey. Known for her cinematic eye and emotionally resonant work, she brings a sense of timelessness and intention to everything she captures. Her authenticity behind the camera brings out the humanity in her subject matter, transforming fleeting moments into powerful visual narratives.

Regula Tschumi is a Swiss photographer and social anthropologist with a PhD. In the context of her research, she has participated in various exhibition projects at renowned institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne or the Musée d'Ethnographie in Neuchâtel.

Documentary and street photography have become an important part of her ethnographic research in Ghana. Her photographs of figurative coffins and burial rituals, in particular, have been exhibited numerous times and published in many books, art catalogues, magazines and daily newspapers.

Tschumi has won several major street photography festivals in Europe and the USA. She has also participated in numerous exhibitions organised by Gulnara Samoilova for Women Street Photographers. In 2024, she exhibited at the Magnin-A gallery in Paris, and in this early 2026, her work is shown at the Nubuke Foundation in Accra.

In 2025, she published her debut photobook, titled “Buried in Style: Artistic Coffins and Funeral Culture in Ghana”.

Born in Athens, Greece, and raised in Italy, Eleni Albarosa (b. 1996) began photographing at the age of fifteen, the same year she was first published by National Geographic Italy. Her work explores social realities marked by prejudice, misinformation, or harmful stereotypes, a focus shaped by both her long-standing photographic practice and her Bachelor’s studies in Anthropology, where she graduated with a 105/110 with a thesis on the internal economy of prisons. Albarosa’s projects have taken her to diverse communities, including nomadic circus performers, Romani communities in Italy and Greece, Irish Travellers in the UK, and a theater company of former inmates in Mexico City. She has collaborated on international projects and been published in Collater.al Magazine (2025), National Geographic US (2024), Billboard (2024), Huck Magazine (2023), Overseas Magazine (2021), and National Geographic Italy (2012). Her commercial and collaborative work includes projects with the Antetokounbros Academy, Nike (2021), and Eleusis City of Culture 2023. In 2024, she launched La Ternura es Radical, a project documenting former prisoners working as actors in Mexico City, in collaboration with anthropologist Jorge Varela Perera. The project received the Canon Student Development Program Award at Perpignan 2024 and was selected for the Hamburg Portfolio Review.

In 2025, Albarosa was named among ARTPIL’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, joined the jury of the SPLITFORMAT Photo Festival, and exhibited her work internationally in Belgium (Brussels), France (Arles), and Italy (Bologna, Treviso, Trieste, and Turin). In the same year, she collaborated with CameraTorino on the production of a documentary on the Falchera neighborhood in Turin, developed within the framework of the Stratosferica Festival.

In 2026, her work will be exhibited in New York following her selection by Women Street Photographers. In the same year, she was selected for a masterclass with Magnum photographer Enri Canaj at Athens Photo World and as one of the three finalists of the Athens Photo World competition, with the final ranking to be announced in March 2026.