Julia Fullerton-Batten is a German fine art photographer. I find her work to be well thought out, especially her three year exploration of teenage transition from a young girl to young woman, entitled "Teenage Stories." I'm also interested in her series from the National Portrait Gallery. I'm not impressed, however, by her biography.
The above images are from her series "In Between." While normally I am not at all interested in pictures of people jumping, everything about these images is dynamic, the colors are relative, muted, and she organizes the scenes in such a way that allows your attention to travel throughout the entire image and not get bored.
These images (up) are from her "Teenage Stories" series. I think they are beautifully set up, the light is soft and subtle, the color is magnificent and I really like the idea of the figure being gigantic, it really emphasizes the concept behind the work. The figures' confusion adds a sense of instability, which was her goal in conveying the feeling (which many of us can relate to) of being trapped within your inevitably changing self, physically and emotionally. The large scale of the girls also adds the egotistical self-centered mindset that most adolescent teenagers (girls AND boys) share so commonly.
These last images are taken from her "National Portrait Gallery" series. They all seem to have the same quality of light and muted color. They are all composed in such a way that momentarily disorients the viewer, which is something that I wasn't sure about when I first looked at them, but the more I look at them the more fond I become of them.
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