Julia Fullerton-Batten - Madison Galloway

 

 Julia Fullerton – Battern is a world-wide commended and exhibited fine art photographer.  She was born in 1970 Bremen, Germany. Some say she rose to fame from her success with her 2005 series ‘teenage stories.’ This series focus in a narrative style of teenage girls transitioning into adolescence. In each image it shows the emotion one might go through including: self-consciousness, mood swings, uncertainty and vulnerability, changes in her body etc. Fullerton explains ‘Adolescent girls can often be caught day-dreaming, just staring into space immersed in their own thoughts and fantasies.’ She portrayed this by making the girls seem bigger and grander like they are in their own fantasy world.

I admire Fullerton’s works as all her images seem to be perfectly lit and look more like a very realistic painting rather than a photograph. It amazes me that her works in the ‘teenage series’ have not be heavily composited but rather an intricate mini scenes that she had created to put her models in. I love that the image as a whole seem impossible and that’s why they are so eye catching and interesting to viewers. It depicts young woman doing everyday things such as reading, picking up the milk in surreal miniature scenes.

 

The girls I photograph in these miniature villages interact with them
much like children interact with their real surroundings, living inside
their own dreams and fantasies rather than living in a specific house
on a specific street. In their minds they can be giants moving through
our world whilst always remaining separate to it, cocooned in their own
dream like existence.