Julia Fullerton Batten

Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art and fashion photographer, from Germany, she was born in 1970. She started being a professional photographer in 2001. Fullerton-Battens work 'teenage stories' is about teenage girls in the fragile state between childhood and adulthood. The series follows the teenager through the next stages of life, this includes In between, Awkward, Mothers and Daughters, A testament of love. Being a photographer, daughter and mother, Julia Fullerton Batten relates to the scenes she creates. She uses real models and scale model sets.

Objectively, this image shows two young girls walking beside a road with 10 cars driving along it either way. The focus of the image is the models, both of which are much larger than  their surrounding world, for example, the cars aren't much bigger than their feet. One of the models is in the foreground, much closer to the lens than the other, the closest model is to the left of the photo looking off to the right into the distance to an area we cannot see, whilst the other appears to be walking ahead. Subjectively I think the image shows the struggle of teenage girls growing up and trying to fit into society due to the photographers use of size illustrating the girls as

  much larger than everything else in the picture. Considering one girl is gazing to the distance and the other is heading somewhere is reinforces the fact that they are not where they want to be yet

This was my second photoshoot for Julia Fullerton Batton, I got a model to dress in revealing clothing similar to a Barbies style as my idea was to make the model look like she wanted to emulate a Barbie, but she could't fit in to this world trying to be like her, compounding the issue of girls unrealistic expectation of beauty and lifestyle that Barbie instills in them at an early age. In my third shoot I used a dolls house and another model to show how she was much too big to fit into the dolls house illustrating the paradox of when a child plays in there and the real world now that she had grown up. My second and third shoots turned out much better than my first attempt, the subjects look better and they convey my messages clearer.

My first shoot idea was to use objects from inside a dolls house to create a model set, like Julia Fullerton Batton does in her Teenage Stories series. My idea was to set it up like an ordinary house and show peoples feet within it, using the contrasting sizes to show that the people were abnormally big compared to their surroundings and didn't fit in.