Julia fullerton-Batten’s ’In Between‘ photography exhibition was exhibited between May 6-29, 2010 at CDA Projects Gallery. With this exhibition Julia is focusing on the transition from teenager to woman.
The viewer looks at the image only casually, but then is impelled to look at it closer. Not once, not twice, but several times. The now animated viewer finds his curiosity increases with every examination. He sees more nuances in the content, he admires the subtlety of the colours and queries how the photographer has achieved that stunning cinematic effect. Here we are talking about pictures taken by multiple award-winning photographer, Julia Fullerton-Batten. Her fine-art images have hung in galleries throughout the world, from Abu Dhabi to China. Her images are held in permanent collections in The National Portrait Gallery, London and Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland, and her first book ‘Teenage Stories’was published in 2007. She is profiled in many international professional and popular photographic magazines.

In her third project ‘In Between’, Julia returns to the theme introduced in ‘Teenage stories’, the transition from teenager to woman. Here, however, the girls are no longer stationary, but floating. This represents the upward momentum towards maturity, but again the girls reveal the awkwardness of their age. There is the confidence evidenced in the violinist’s upward stare, but then there is the kicked-over glass of milk. The powerful forward leap of the girl over her fallen mirror. The schoolgirl reaching upwards to recapture falling books. This symbolises that the transition to womanhood has progressed, but is by far not yet accomplished.

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 has 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.

Julia lives in London with her husband and her young son.