| Julia Fullerton-Batten Julia Fullerton-Batten was born in Germany. Her family moved to the USA when she was two for a 7-year stay, then back to Germany for the next seven years. Upon her parents’ divorce the family moved to England in 1986, where she has made her home in London. She grew up with two sisters and a brother, with whom she has always been very close. She claims that her happy and international childhood, as well as her parents’ divorce, have had an influence on her photography. Julia has travelled extensively throughout the world both on holiday and on business assignments. Holidays meant spending several weeks at a time in countries such as China, India, Vietnam, Chile, Australia and New Zealand. These visits provided her with plenty of picture material as well as an insight into different cultures. Images taken in Vietnam gave her the breakthrough for her professional career. She studied photography at the Berkshire college of Art and Design. After graduating, she spent several months at Vogue magazine on work experience. There, she was involved with shoots by top-level professional fashion photographers, including Mario Testino. Then followed a five year period as a freelance assistant during which time she assisted many photographers covering a wide variety of different fields including fashion, still-life and cars. Julia is now a well-established professional photographer, who has shot campaigns for big name advertising agencies around the world, as well as many editorial commissions. |
As well as her
professional work Julia has also developed a body of
personal fine art work, that has gained her wide-spread acclaim, and
won her numerous awards. Her images have been regularly hung in the
National Portrait Gallery, London, at Photo France, Photo London, and
shown at Arles. She has also had solo exhibitions in London, and was a
contributor to a group show in New York. Julia’s most recent personal work, taken over the past three years, has resulted in a major series of images on teenage girls. Here, her earlier images show girls involved in leisure activities, at home, in the garden, at the swimming pool, or at the beach. More recently, she has placed the girls in a model village environment, dwarfing their surroundings. Using her distinctive style of photography, she ‘explores the unsettling dynamics of puberty, a formative but sometimes uneasy time between childhood and womanhood, marked by change and a sense of anxious anticipation’. This body of personal work has yielded great acclaim, resulting in her winning yet more awards and being profiled in many professional and popular photographic magazines. In 2006, Julia was given a major commission by the prestigious National Portrait Gallery in London to shoot a set of portraits of sixteen leading personalities in the field of health services in the UK. These were exhibited in the Gallery entitled ‘A Picture of Health’ from June to September 2006 to universal acclaim. You will find more of Julia Fullerton-Batten's work at www.juliafullerton-batten.com |
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