JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN

Looking out from Within

Covid-19 came. Life changed around the world. For ever. Award-winning fine-art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten felt she couldn’t sit around helpless. During her evening permitted exercise, walking around her local neighbourhood, she noticed people looking out of their windows onto a newly desolate world. This was sufficient for her to formulate how she would visually portray the disturbing effect of the Covid-19 lockdown had on people’s everyday lives, not only of those in her West London neighbourhood but of millions around the world. Little did she know that she would still be shooting her project over a year later.


Her idea was to photograph her neighbours imprisoned in their homes as they gazed forlornly out of their window onto the surreal, silent and stark world outside. She chose to photograph them during twilight to further enhance the poignancy of their situation and isolation. Julia advertised her idea on social media and in a local newspaper. The response was so large that she was reluctantly forced to be selective in her choice of subjects. She contacted them by phone and email to arrange details of setting, clothing, face mask and agree a date and time. Her subjects were invited to dress up and use props to share their narratives. She also asked them to answer a few informal questions about their lockdown experience, in order to add to the poignancy of their situation and provide a heightened emotional content to their stories.


The result is her series titled Looking out from Within. Fullerton-Batten explains that she has found the most important part of these images to be how they provide a magnifying glass to reflect upon what the pandemic and lockdown meant to us all. The loved ones we lost, the extended isolation from our families and the
huge sacrifices that many have made. She was sad to lose one of her sitters shortly after she had photographed him.


These images have won global attention and acclaim, winning numerous awards and have been hung in galleries and at photography exhibitions worldwide. She now brings the project together in a beautifully designed limited-edition artist book, which features full-page images and includes the sitters’ personal stories. The volume will provide an insight into the lives of people not only in Julia’s part of London, but also the lives of others throughout the world. It provides a record for posterity, holding onto the memories of what we have all been through. Above all, the book is a beautiful yet tangible object, important not only for its historical importance but also for the mesmerising fine-art photography that it contains.

Kitty, Lockdown Day 92’, 12x8”, limited edition of 25

Details

Foreword by Marion Tande, MOMA, NY

Designed by Sarah Boris

Book size: 238×335 mm, 80 pages, hardback

Edition of 1000

ISBN 978-1-3999-0872-6

Prices

ORDER signed book

Signed edition – signed copy of the book – £45

Special edition – signed copy of the book with a signed 12×8 inch print – £190 (limited edition 25)

Delivery charges

UK – £8
Europe – £12
US/World – £23

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The Act

In ‘The Act’, acclaimed fine-art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten portrays the lives and skills of women who voluntarily engage in the UK sex industry as their career. All of them chose a markedly different path in life to the usual one, wittingly challenging social stigma. Julia investigated why this is with imagery and videoed interviews.

Following a year of castings, Julia narrowed her choice of models down to fifteen, some of which were well educated with university degrees. Among them are aerial artistes, a ping-pong girl, a dominatrix, an escort, and webcam and porn stars. She photographed her nude models provocatively posed against a backdrop of specially designed stage sets, highlighting ‘their act’.

Julia’s book contains powerful imagery in her unique style and in exquisite colour. Forewords are by Alessia Glaviano, Senior Photo Editor of Vogue Italia and Helen Tootsi, an up-and-coming art critic. Jen Brook transposed Julia’s videoed interviews into intimate text stories accompanying the girls’ images in the book.

Generously sized, beautifully printed, hand-crafted, sumptuously bound in a soft material flesh-like to the touch, and embellished with a lace garter, the book is a dream for collectors of fine-art photography, especially for enthusiasts of Julia’s style of photography. A DVD containing videoed interviews and behind the scenes glimpses accompanies the book.

Availability

All copies are signed and numbered by Julia Fullerton-Batten

  • Standard limited edition, with DVD, 300 copies
  • Collector’s Limited edition, with DVD, signed print selected by collector, mounted in a clamshell box, print size: 11×14″, 10 copies

Book Description

‘The Act’ by Julia Fullerton-Batten
ISBN 978-0-9934199-1-1
Published: February 2017
Book size: 410 mm x 305 mm
Content: 100 pages, 30 images, 16 pages of image and text
Hard Cover – Soft touch embossed pink with a decorative lace restraining band
Designed by: Studio Sutherl&
Published by: Sutherl&Editions
Printed & bound by: Boss Print

Prices

Standard Limited edition: £ 140 plus shipping
Collector’s Limited edition: £ 770 plus shipping

Delivery charges

UK – £ 18
Europe – £ 18
US / World – £ 28
Canada – £ 30

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