Mothers and Daughters (10 Photos)
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
Tags: daughter, environmental, Julia Fullerton-Batten, mother, Randall Scott Projects
January 30th, 2012 at 1:11 pm EEDT
Simply amazing
January 31st, 2012 at 1:33 pm EEDT
Excellent shots but they all seem to be very middle class. It would have been nice to see a more diverse representaion.
January 31st, 2012 at 6:55 pm EEDT
I would call these representations far beyond middle class.
Accordingly, the photographs have an eery air of attempted perfection.
January 31st, 2012 at 8:32 pm EEDT
U have got to be kidding.
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:26 pm EEDT
it’s good to know that Black Mothers don’t have daughters … ??!
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:23 pm EEDT
WOW… so retro and beautiful.
February 4th, 2012 at 6:22 pm EEDT
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.
February 14th, 2012 at 3:23 pm EEDT
A good family relationships between mother and child are expected from the photo above is triggered… Awesome