Sunday 27 November 2011

BATTEN’S TEEN-AGE DAYDREAMS

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For this week’s Food Issue, we asked Julia Fullerton-Batten to photograph Lucy Worsley, the British historian and TV personality, for Lauren Collins’s Profile. The location: the Tudor Kitchen in Hampton Court Palace. “It was so cold,” Fullerton-Batten told me. “We managed to persuade them to have this huge open fire to keep us vaguely warm. Apparently it gets so cold in there it even snows inside.”
Worsley is known for her televised archaeological experiments, in which she explores life in different eras by recreating quotidian tasks, such as laying a fire in period costume, or staging a full-scale Georgian dinner in an unwinterized kitchen. They are works of imagination, making her a fitting subject for Fullerton-Batten, whose photographs often entail staging fantasies and simulating daydreams. Much of her work is focussed on female adolescence and the teen-age mind, a world she has explored in her series “Teenage Stories,” “Awkward,” and “In-Between.” Here’s a selection.


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