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's reputation as a fine-art photographer is primarily based on her multiple year, three-part project on teenage girls. Here, she sensitively handles the transition of teenage girls to womanhood, capturing the lives and feelings of young girls as they change from relative innocence to a heightened awareness of their future adult life. In the first part of the project, Teenage Stories, she shows girls engaged in everyday leisure activities, at home, in the garden, at the swimming pool or on the beach. She later continued this theme by placing the girls in a setting where they dwarf their surroundings. In these images, Julia captures the inner tension experienced by teenage girls during their transition from girl to woman, relating to her changing appearance and her new role in society. The girls show no emotion as a sign of their confusion. They are in their own world, perhaps daydreaming.

For more information about Julie Fullerton-Batten and her work, please visit her website.