Korea is the latest series of Julia Fullerton-Batten. She became interested in the contrasts and tensions that dominate the country, expressing them through staged portraits of Korean women wearing traditional dress in the heart of their modern, spare cities. It’s a wonderful contrast which the photographer illustrates with formalism and poetry to tell the story of this country and the lives of its delicate citizens in a strict environment.
Julia Fullerton-Batten’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Le Monde and The Financial Times, among others, and has been exhibited in Paris, Shanghai, Madrid, London and, starting this February, at the Swedish Museum of Photography. Born in Germany, she is now based in London.
