Teenage Stories, Personal Project
Julia Fullerton-Batten documents the very stilness of our life and the experiences we create for ourselves and those we choose to expose ourselves to. Rather then entirely documenting photographs of a relatively natural scale of objects, she chooses to use both scale and proportion and the interaction between these two elements enhances her ability to capture images with direct and reflective lighting. Many of her photographs are dim and are at night, they bare witness to our inner activities and the qualities that we show that we would not show in public. She discovers both our public and private domain and tries to highlight how humans interact with organic and man-made objects.
Publications such as SummerWinter have continuously shown a more narrative driven prose of images that do not serve as a stationary point for which we should look as mere ‘fashion’. Rather, what inspires us more are the everyday mundane things and observations we have. Julia’s work has a particular focus on more important subjects. Her personal projects and her commissions have held conviction of exploring self-isolation, teenage innocence, social expectations, suicide, personal relationships, music, travel and individual idiosyncrasy versus uniformity.
Julia was born in Bremen, Germany to a German mother and English father. Now residing in London, she graduated from Berkshire College of Art and Design with a Diploma of Photography. Taking on projects as a freelance assistant, she continued to explore her work and intensively expand her skills and knowledge from fashion to still-life to objects. Her work distinctively shows little to no use of professional models and they portray her organic and wholesome relationship with the natural environment of mammals (humans) and mother nature. Interacting with these subjects allowed her to achieve her work shown at the National Portrait in London and Photo Folio Review in Paris.
