Video: Julia Fullerton-Batten's Teenage Stories
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Julia Fullerton-Batten's photographs are mesmerizing, mesmerizing and slightly unnerving. They show teenage girls on the verge of adulthood going about their normal daily activities: at home, in the garden, on the beach or in the pool. And everything would be fine, only the world around these girls is miniature, and they themselves are giants.
The girls in the photographs are almost always alone, immersed in their own reality, living the life of not a child, but not an adult yet. Unlike many other depictions of teenage girls in art, Julia Fullerton-Batten bypasses the sexual side of the issue. While not denying the importance of this topic, the photographer nevertheless focuses his gaze not on it, but on deeper and more unexplored aspects of the growing up process.
The atmosphere of loneliness, anticipation and painfully slow passage of time so often felt during adolescence is present in many photographs. Depicting girls not moving and staring into space, scattered and dreaming in reality, Julia Fullerton-Batten thereby shows a pause, a moment of stopping time between childhood and adulthood.
In her project "Teenage Stories" Julia uses scaled-down models of urban landscapes, in her work there is no Photoshop - only camera effects. “In their fantasies, girls always feel more powerful than they really are, so I got the idea to portray them towering over the streets and houses,” says Fullerton-Batten.
Created in 2005, the photography series has won awards such as the Applied Arts Photography Award (Toronto) and the Prix de la Photographie Paris (2nd place).
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