[3] 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.
[2] 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.
In 2001[5] and 2006,[6] Autio was selected in the Australian Art Collector magazine's "Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists".
[1] In 2018, Autio and Parke made, along with filmmaker Matthew Bate, an eight-channel video work called The Summation of Force.
The work was exhibited extensively in the US, Asia, and Europe, and won the inaugural VR Award at Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam.