Julia fullerton-batten’s Teenage Stories
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Bike Accident, 2005
It is for her personal work in the field of fine art photography that UK-based Julia Fullerton-Batten is getting a reputation. In particular, the series entitled: Teen Stories. This series was developed out of Julia’s adoration for miniature villages. The photographs are hypnotic, slightly unnerving, juxtaposing teenage girls at the moment of facing maturity, many of which are involved in everyday leisure activities, at home, in the garden, at the swimming pool, or at the beach. Many of her concepts in this series, are in part: fairy tale (Alice in wonderland) with unique surreal twists. What’s more, they exemplify the real art of photography; making the ordinary into the extraordinary by seeing it in a completely unique way. See more examples from this extraordinary series after the jump.
Broken Eggs, 2005
Red Dress In City, 2005
Floating In Harbour, 2005
Milk Bottle, 2005
Pond, 2005
Girl Under Motorway, 2005
Chewing Gum, 2005
Airport, 2005
Marbles, 2005
P&0, 2005
Book, 2005
Beach Houses, 2005
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October 5th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
The second to last (the castle and the girl with a book) is in my home town. And the question goes: where is my hometown?
October 6th, 2007 at 1:05 am
hmmm…that’s a tough one! At a guess I’d say Amsterdam, but I could be wrong….
October 6th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Your hometown is obviously Littledonia, the small town with a serious giant-teenager problem. Nice photos.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
David, you’re wrong.. Unless it’s some famous thing I haven’t seen or heard about, but I lived there, so it’s unlikely.
October 6th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
ahem..well it was a guess! Though in part, educated; the style of architecture’s medieval and similar to some castles on the Rhine (ie, surrounded by water.)
Hmmm..If your saying your hometown is further east , then I’d be surprised.
^^
October 7th, 2007 at 2:03 am
I’d say Jon’s hometown is Budapest
October 7th, 2007 at 6:00 am
I’m leaning towards Baltic states actually.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Completely inane…
October 10th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Alejandro, not Budapest for sure! I’m livin here, and dont know about this cool town
Ok it can be… 
But i would say US 
October 11th, 2007 at 12:39 am
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October 14th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
where are the LIGHTS in the dark scenes? the rest are great but the darker photographs aren’t realistic at all because of the lack of lighting from buildings and cars.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
hmmm, not sure what you mean! There is light in each photo, even the “darker photos”- it’s very subtle directional light aimed at making the scene more dramatic and mysterious.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:16 am
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October 17th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Interesting and fun photos.
well done!
October 17th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
The second to last kinda looks like a school in Annecy that I saw in a high school French book.
Do you live in Annecy?
October 18th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I was at a place like this when I was a little kid and I was the giant looking down on the little people.
These days I’m not so power crazed.
Interesting photos!
October 19th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
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October 20th, 2007 at 1:45 am
that castle is definitely from somewhere around northern Europe!
October 20th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Now am sure it’s in Scandanavia, maybe Finland?
October 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
breathtaking.
October 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
The castle is Olavinlinna Castle and it’s in Finland - you can all stop guessing now.
October 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Y’all . . . isn’t that St. Augustine??
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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October 25th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Wow! Wow! Wow!
October 25th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Not sure what the artist intended, but to me these pieces represent how teen girls often feel this sort of egotistical self-consciousness and self-hatred. It’s like everyone is looking at them, like they’re giant monsters in a world of tiny people. Every action and every event is so important; they’re the center of the universe and it’s all so dramatic.
These are great.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
@Elaine - That’s a great descriptive reading. And, I’m 99.9 percent sure you’ve described certain narratives perfectly.
Reading these stories as a series, I turn to the great Lewis Carrol:
Nothing would be what it is,
Because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise - what it is, it wouldn’t be.And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
you see?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
After all these years of teenagers thinking they’re larger than life, they have finally become so!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
This is way out of this world.
really really love it.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Man. Micropsia is badass! I can’t believe some people consider it a disorder!
October 29th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Oh, I have to know where that is, its gorgeous!
October 29th, 2007 at 9:48 am
its awsome….
nice work i like it…
November 4th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
the 10th photo (2 girls playing) is El Escorial, in Madrid (Spain)…
Wonderfull!!! it’s my city!
Thanks,
Nuria
November 9th, 2007 at 3:59 am
[…] It is for her personal work in the field of fine art photography that UK-based Julia Fullerton-Batten is getting a reputation. In particular, the series entitled: Teen Stories. This series was developed out of Julia’s adoration for miniature villages. The photographs are hypnotic, slightly unnerving, juxtaposing teenage girls at the moment of facing maturity, many of which are involved in everyday leisure activities, at home, in the garden, at the swimming pool, or at the beach. Many of her concepts in this series, are in part: fairy tale (Alice in wonderland) with unique surreal twists. What’s more, they exemplify the real art of photography; making the ordinary into the extraordinary by seeing it in a completely unique way. See more examples from this extraordinary series after the jump. (Paintalicious) […]
November 9th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
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November 12th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Very nice.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I can’t see images…
November 13th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
@Marina - could you expand on that? All images are displaying fine from my end.
November 18th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I love these pictures. It makes me think of giants, like these pictures are a view into a fantasy world.
Awesome +++
November 21st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
the first few remind me of necrophilia, creepy, but its still interesting.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:28 pm
The church is the ‘Basílica de Candelaria’, the airport ‘Los Rodeos’ (TFN), both featured in the miniature park ‘Pueblo Chico’ on Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain).
November 21st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
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November 22nd, 2007 at 5:06 am
@Michiel - Thanks for the info! Interesting.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
nice shots! its seems like a true schence we love it
November 25th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
really neat.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Jon is your hometown Valetta in Malta?
November 28th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
…letting a side the naivesexylolita approach…
December 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am
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December 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Nice locations, also, Hot-Hot-Hot
December 27th, 2007 at 1:22 am
Blimey… So it is, Olavinlinna from Savonlinna in Finland….. Still doesn’t help me with the miniature world. Is it all one location, or does she use many?
December 30th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I like the images
December 31st, 2007 at 11:16 am
brilliant art work … i like Pond 2005 x
January 5th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Very cool. I took a simlar series of photos where I drank from a mug-shaped shot glass and washed with hotel soap.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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January 11th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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January 12th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
do i win a prize for Madurodam John…?? or only if i spell it right…. near Utrect NL if i remember right…;D
January 12th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Great!I love her photoes, I feel exactly like these girls.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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January 18th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I love it !!!!!
It’s so amazing !
January 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
My favorite is of the one with the girl on the side of the road kill.
January 29th, 2008 at 7:00 am
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January 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
The work is intense, thought-provoking, embracing and so interesting! Nice!!!
February 5th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
These are a great fwe shots of Julia’s. I have moddled many times with Julia, some wierd poseses but they are worth wile. for example i was FREEEZING in the pond, but the end product was defiantly worth it
February 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I went to this place when I was a prepubescent and it still lingers in my imagination. As awesome as Julia’s images are, I can’t help but wonder why the place -Madurodam- isn’t credited in her publicity, since I feel like she’s standing on the shoulders of the people who crafted those amazing models. I feel a bit miffed at the ol’ fine art vs craft presumption. Or am I being pathetically modernist and is it perfectly legit for her to sample in this way?
February 19th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Airport is a great one;-) Imagine people sitting on one little plane and flying over the pacific;-)
thanks for posting those great photographs.
Léonie.
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February 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
cool!at the same time quite grotesque.gives u an eerie feeling.
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March 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Powerful compositions suggesting (to me) transition from childhood toy-town innocence to deeper awareness of the mysterious nature underlying the world. Also the earlier post by blahbalicious is not referring to lighting ie dramatic and mysterious, but to LIGHTS, as in headlights, room lights, streetlights. A fair point imho but not one I would have noticed had it not been mentioned.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Um, very weird, yet interesting. Where can I find more of this work?
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April 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Very interesting.
April 13th, 2008 at 3:11 am
these are great photos. i love fine art photography.
April 15th, 2008 at 5:36 am
I saw a documentary film about fetish for giant women. It was fascinating, as there aren’t any real ones, they make movies with miniature cities. The movies are mostly funny or grotesque. The point of the documentary was that the fetish for giant women is actually a foot fetish…
Here it is amazing to see a woman taking it to another level. It is spooky & normal in the same time, it almost feel like I’m peeking into real moments. It’s beautiful & tasteful & even only by that, it’s unique.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
oh oops someone else already got it…damn! :[
May 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hello!!
This is nice site and the pics are just great.
Thanks.
Jitendra
October 5th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Very Good!
December 5th, 2008 at 12:41 am
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