All photos © Julia Fullerton-Batten. Above: The Departure.
In her latest project, called Mothers and Daughters, Julia Fullerton-Batten portrays the complex and sometimes challenging relationship between mothers and their daughters. Both documentary and biographical, these images illustrate the artist’s memories of her two sisters’ and her relationships with their mother and in turn, their mother’s relationship with their grandmother.
Choosing to work with real mother and daughter pairs in their own environments, the subjects create their own world together while at the same time revive the artist’s personal memories through staging. Over the course of their lives the dependence switches from the child’s need for security and nurturing to the mother’s dependence on the daughter to satisfy emotional needs. In the adult relationship, the intimacy of the bond is established by the love, struggle and acceptance of each other.
-courtesy Randall Scott Projects.
Teenage Reflection
Changing Bodies
Custody Battle
Intimate Moments
The Rehearsal
The Party Is Over
Pretty New Thing
Forgiveness
Alone Again
Simply amazing
Excellent shots but they all seem to be very middle class. It would have been nice to see a more diverse representaion.
I would call these representations far beyond middle class.
Accordingly, the photographs have an eery air of attempted perfection.
U have got to be kidding.
it’s good to know that Black Mothers don’t have daughters … ??!
WOW… so retro and beautiful.
Maybe the black mothers and daughters were out somewhere playing the race card. OR maybe the artist is doing what she knows best. Like writers write about what they know. Maybe you should do a project with nothing but black mothers and daughters. That would fix us.
A good family relationships between mother and child are expected from the photo above is triggered… Awesome