THE STORYTELLER

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine-art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual storytelling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes. Each image in the project embellishes her subject matter in a series of thought-provoking narrative ‘stories' using staged tableaux and sophisticated lighting techniques. Julia’s use of unusual locations, highly creative settings, and street-cast models accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her style. She insinuates visual tensions in her images and imbues them with a mystique that teases the viewer into continually re-examining the picture; something new coming to the fore each time. 

Julia’s fine-art work is globally recognized and exhibited. She has won countless awards worldwide, is frequently portrayed in photographic journals, has published two books, is a Hasselblad Ambassador, a frequent speaker at international workshops and a juror of international competitions. Her images are on the front covers of A Guide to Collecting Contemporary Photography. She has permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne and the Parliamentary Art Collection, Houses of Parliament.

“IT´S LIKE A FILMSET, AND IT'S LIKE BEING A DIRECTOR AND CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE... AND, YOU KNOW, WALKING INTO THIS BLANK CANVAS AND SETTING UP THE CAMERA ON A TRIPOD AND CREATING THE SCENE IS HOW I IMAGINE IT IN MY HEAD”

- JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN