Photo project by Julia Fullerton-Batten "Unvarnished"

Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten presents an alternative view of the world. A series of her works called “Unadorned” (“Without Beauty”) are unusually far from modern standards of naked bodies, against the backdrop of rooms filled with rotten fruit, flying beads, withered flowers and soft light.

Attention! Under the cut nude!

(Total 13 photos)

1. Julia Fullerton-Batten is often referred to by art critics as one of the leading young photographers in the UK.

2. She has won numerous prestigious awards, including the HSBC Fondation pour le Photographie in 2007, has exhibited several times individually in London and has exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic.

3. She has a permanent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London and at the Swiss Musée de Elise in Lausanne.

4. Julia was born in Bremen, Germany and spent her childhood between Germany and the United States, moving to the UK at 16. Now she lives in London.

5. Here is what the author herself says about her work: “Working on my latest project, I drew inspiration from the works of artists of the 15th-17th centuries - from Titian to Rubens. For more than three centuries in a row, these masters showed the feminine and masculine beauty of that time, represented by full bodies.

6. For several millennia, curvy women were considered the most attractive, and in the case of Rubens, they were completely obese.

7. And only very recently, with the advent of Twiggy and Barbie in the 60s, our narcissistic society, pushed by the media and advertising, began to consider super-thinness, accompanied by eating disorders and plastic surgery, as the ideal figure.

8. Even men are starting to fall into this vicious cycle. Today in the West, gross condemnation of overweight people prevails, while many other cultures still respect obesity.

9. I brought the works of the old masters that inspired me into a modern context.

10. My grandiose models of both sexes unashamedly throw off their clothes and pose for me naked. I place each of them in an individual frame with my scenery and ask them to pose in a way that naturally demonstrates their forms and emphasizes their beauty.

11. I also tried to recreate the soft light from candles and moonlight from the paintings of the great masters.

12. My models accept their bodies as nature created them. They demonstrate honesty - both to themselves and to others - in a world dominated by "managed" beauty.