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The Everyday Life of 100ft Teenage Girls

9 July 2010 3 Comments

Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten kills this project. From what I was able to gather, there are no digital manipulations in this series. Her ability to play with size and setting utilizing such a delicate touch pays off in spades.

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  • Cake Boy said:

    ” From what I was able to gather, there are no digital manipulations in this series” – does this make it better or worse for some reason? Just asking… to me it doesnt matter.

    # 12 July 2010 at 11:44 am
  • skernick (author) said:

    Yea, I think a photo shoot built around a man-made miniature neighborhood is much more engaging and dynamic than overlaying photos on a digitally manipulated background.

    It is the same reason I prefer the special effects in Robocop to those in the newer Star Wars movies. There is something attractive about the tactile nature of subjects with true mass.

    Although, when I found out the scenes that these were shot in are fairly common setups in the UK, I was a little bummed.

    http://www.bekonscot.co.uk/

    # 13 July 2010 at 5:41 am
  • Stream of Conciousness and See Through Monitors » The Creative South said:

    [...] the context of photos reminded me of a media post by a friend over at Two Four Flinching about The Everyday Life of 100ft Teenage Girls, which in turn reminded me about 90s electro jazz artist MC 900 Jesus and why I named one of my [...]

    # 28 June 2011 at 5:23 pm

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