Julia Fullerton-Batten
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Julia Fullerton-Battenhttp://www.digitalcameraworld.com FEBRUARY 2022 DIGITAL CAMERA^119
n a mid-September afternoon,
fine-art photographer Julia
Fullerton-Batten is peering at me
through my iPad’s rectangular
screen, during a Zoom call from
her home in West London... it’s
an apt scenario because
Fullerton-Batten spent much of the Covid lockdown
period peering in on, and photographing, the lives of
people who were looking out of the windows of their
homes. Although many people have already have
seen the unforgettable pictorial results of some
of those shoots on her Instagram feed, Fullerton-
Batten is now self-publishing a selection of
images from the project in book form.
During 2020, Fullerton-Batten lost a couple
of commissions due to the impact of the Covid
lockdowns in the UK, and took the decision to
abandon a personal project she had started. But she
rapidly realised that the lockdowns provided a period
during which she could document the isolation and
sense of entrapment many people were feeling after
being told to stay at home by the British government.
Her penchant for storytelling with staged imagery
fitted this project perfectly: the pictures have
garnered widespread praise, including The Telegraph
Magazine’s director of photography, Andy Greenacre,
choosing one of her images as his Picture of the Year.
Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign,
her book of the lockdown project, Looking Out
From Within, has recently been self-published.
To discover more about the background to her
career, her creative motivations, her innovative
approach to photography and the insideLeft: Kitty, Lockdown
Day 92.