Julia Fullerton-Batten
I’ve chosen to include her because of her narrative photographs. She does an extremely good job at telling the entire story in a single image, while achieving a nice calm photo at the same time. Her photographs are centered on the characters and locations, and she limits the amount of irrelevant information within the frame. Her images are stylistically clean, which is something I really enjoy, but she still manages to tell a really powerful story.
I’ve included a couple examples from her newest series Feral Children and some from a series called In Service. I’ve chosen these two series because I think she does an extremely good job with the colours in them, they have been carefully chosen and matched, which makes the images feel natural and gives them a certain entirety.
It’s also important to mention her series ‘Teenage Stories’ from 2005, how she has cleverly worked with scale in this project is something I could incorporate into my own work. This series also helped inspire my other idea of Nora leaving an actual dollhouse behind her, where she would be a full-size human, leaving a fake life behind her. I think experimenting with scale for this narrative in particular could be quite interesting.
