Julia Fullerton-Batten

Julia is a perfectionist. You might say that’s due to her partially German roots. But that would be too shallow and inappropriate judgement.

Julia Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen, Germany, her mother German, her father English. She spent her childhood in germany and in the USA before moving to the UK in 1986. At school-leaving age she decided to enter a career in photography. She ha not looked back since. After graduating from the Berkshire College of Art and Design, she assisted for five years, where she learned her craft the hard way and began to develop her own unique photographic style.

When still assisting, a series of pictures she shot during a trip to Vietnam won her a series of awards, based upon which she was signed up by a German agent.

Julia’s reputation as a fine-art photographer is primarily based on her multiple three-part project on teenage girls. Here, she sensitively handles the transition of teenage girls to womanhood, capturing the lives and feelings of young girls as they change from relative innocence to a heightened awareness of their future adult life.

Her images are held in the permanent collections in The National Portrait Gallery, London and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, and her first book “Teenage Stories” was published in 2007.