Julia Fullerton Batten

Julia Fullerton Batten was born in Germany in 1970 but spent most of her childhood growing up in the United States before moving to England in 1986.  She studied photography at Berkshire College of Art and Design and then went on the work as a photographers assistant.

Whilst she was still working as an assistant a series of pictures she shot during a trip to Vietnam won her awards and she was then signed by a German agent.  Julia then did a project on teenage girls which she titled Teenage Stories and within these images showed the transition of teenage girls to womenhood.  In these images she captures how teenage girls transform into womenhood.  These girls are showing no emotion within the images to show confusion of the changing world around them.

She has gone on the exhibit her work around the world and won many many awards

This image Library Girls which was taken in 2007 is done in a contemporary style and is part of a series of photographs done in the same way.  In each photographs the girls are all the same girl each having a role to play within the image.  I really like the texture of this image with the old fashioned library walls in dark wood and lined with books.  Lines plays a dominant part in this image with the shelving and the books in the background.

This image is an photograph from the work Teenage Stories and shows an oversized image of a girl within another image of the changing world around her.