Julia Fullerton-Batten

In this video Julia-Fullerton Batten talks to FotoTV subscribers about her early start in photography. After a formal education in photography and five years of assisting, she started her career in advertising photography. Soon she began to develop her own photographic style and that led her to fine art photography.

She uses female teenagers as her model, capturing their transition from young girls to womanhood. The girls are photographed doing mundane things but are placed in a setting (model villages) where they dwarf their surroundings. Julia's pictures capture the emotion/confusion the teenage girls feel because of their physical and emotional transition.  

The series of pictures on teenage girls relate to the Julia’s teen years and it was her own way of digging into the adolescent years of her life.

In her style of photography, Julia says, production takes the longest - finding the location, the models, stylists, building props and working out the details of lighting. Despite the careful planning, often ideas develop while on location. She loves to experiment with lights, and says that lighting can make a mundane scenario very surreal, cinematic and interesting. She also dwells in color photography and clarifies that all the colors in the pictures are done on camera and very rarely post production.

Photography is Julia's life and passion, not a hobby. She claims to be poor at writing and so uses photography as her way of expressing herself. She's delighted that people like what she produces. It’s not important to her that people always see her point of view in a picture. After all, she adds, the fact that people see it differently makes it all the more interesting.