Digital Camera World - UK (2022-02)

INTERVIEW

Julia Fullerton-

Batten

Fine-art photographer

Julia Fullerton-Batten was

born in Bremen, Germany,

in 1970 and has since lived

in the US and the UK. She

is an acclaimed fine-art

photographer who is known

for large-scale projects

that use unusual locations,

creative settings, street-cast

models and cinematic

lighting styles.

She rose to prominence in

the fine art world with her

project Teenage Stories

(2005), which told the story

of a teenage girl’s journey to

womanhood and resulted in

a book in 2007. Since then

she has been prolific in

producing over a dozen

projects on social issues,

including Feral Children in

2015, which re-enacted 15

cases of feral children; and

2016’s The Act, a study of

15 women who were active

in the sex industry.

Her work is held in the

permanent collections of

the National Portrait Gallery

in London, the Musée de

l’Élysée in Lausanne and the

Parliamentary Art Collection

in the Houses of Parliament.

Fullerton-Batten has won

dozens of awards around the

world for her commercial

and fine-art work, and is

a Hasselblad Ambassador.

http://www.juliafullerton-

batten.com

Julia

Fullerton-

Batten

Steve Fairclough meets the fine-art

photographer who embarked on an ambitious

portrait project during the London lockdowns

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