Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen, Germany. Her early life was spent in Germany and the USA. After her parent’s divorce she and her siblings moved to the UK with her English father where she completed her secondary education. She studied photography and assisted professional photographers for five years before a first commercial assignment kick-started her career in 1995. She now lives in London with her husband and two young boys.

Julia’s use of unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models, accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her very distinctive style of photography.

She insinuates visual tensions in her fine-art images, and imbues them with a hint of mystery, which combine to tease the viewer to re-examine the picture, each time seeing more content and finding a deeper meaning.

These distinctive qualities have established enthusiasts for her work worldwide and at all ends of the cultural spectrum, from casual viewers to connoisseurs of fine-art photography.

Julia was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery in London to shoot portraits of leading people in the UK National Health Service, which are now held in a permanent collection in the Gallery. Her images are also in permanent collection at the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland.

She was a winner of the HSBC Fondation pour la Photographie award, and is a Hasselblad Master. Her images were on the front covers of 'A Guide to Collecting Contemporary Photography' (Thames and Hudson, 2012) and Eyemazing Magazine.

Over the past five years, Julia has been a guest speaker at many international events including: National Geographic Seminar in Washington DC, USA; Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden; Dong Gang Photo festival, Korea, and Noorderlicht, International Festival of Photography, Norway.

Recent major international events that she has attended as exhibitor include Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden (solo show ‘ Staged Reality’); Noorderlicht International Festival of Photo