“Before an image gets to post-production, I’ll work to create little pools of light in order to make an image stand out, and that’s all done in the moment. “I like my images to look painterly, so I’ll spend a lot of time working with my sets,” she says. Perhaps most characteristic of Julia’s work is the use of abstract colour and considered lighting. Through written interviews which she conducted to accompany each photograph, Julia sought to give agency to her models and inquire into the conditions of the sex industry. In the photo series The Act (2016), she champions radical sexual politics, humanising the posing sex worker models she recruited to take part in the shopfront scene - a nod to the redlight district of Amsterdam. In other collections, Julia assesses womanhood through the lens of fraught familial relations between Mothers and Daughters (2011). Suddenly galleries were looking at my work and my art was being shown in major art fairs.”
On the significance of that project, she notes: “It set me up in the fine art world. To which the oversized, despondent teenaged figures in her story are shown resting on miniaturised buildings. It provides a nuanced portrait of girlhood the loss of it, and the process of transitioning into the realm of womanhood. Her seminal photo series, titled Teenage Stories (2005), peers into the inner-worlds of teenage girls navigating puberty. Julia Fullerton-Batten, Fashion and Portrait Photographer, shot for the Sky Arts and Adobe series, ‘My Greatest Shot.’ I really enjoyed his way of seeing things, and I spent a lot of time studying his work.” He was at the forefront of accepting colour. “Before Eggleston, the photography world was primarily black and white. “I was very much influenced by William Eggleston and his use of colour, and I really loved his compositions,” she says, explaining the impetus and influences behind her decision to become a photographer. Increasingly, however, she has grounded her art within more contemporary analyses of society and culture. Her photographs, which bear an almost theatrical quality, typically evoke European folklore. The German-born and now British-based photographer constructs surrealist scenes by negotiating elaborate sets and using props, costumes and models to create stories.
The series profiles some of Britain’s most innovative photographers, inviting them to reflect on their careers while sharing in-depth stories behind some of their most iconic work.įine art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten is fabled for her still life compositions.
My Greatest Shot is a brand-new series from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Sky Arts.
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