May 2006 A PICTURE OF HEALTH: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JULIA FULLERTON-BATTEN 6 June - 10 September 2006 Room 40 Supported by Deloitte View images | Guide to accessing press images The health sector is the subject of a highly topical display of sixteen newly commissioned large format colour photographs. A Picture of Health profiles some of the outstanding men and women who have shaped healthcare at the beginning of the 21st century. Julia Fullerton-Batten's intriguing portraits include key figures working for the National Health Service as leaders, clinicians, and Primary Carers. Campaigners and Government policy advisors are also represented.

Fullerton-Batten's cinematic approach captures her sitters in settings that provide an insight into their working environment. Sir Iain Chalmers, the founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, is photographed in his office, balancing on a footstall and surrounded by more than two hundred photographs of the colleagues who collaborated on this international project on the effects of healthcare. Marjorie Wallace, Founder and Chief Executive of SANE, is depicted as a romantic crusader wearing blue silk and sitting at a grand piano at the charity's research centre in Oxford. Other portraits on display include Claire Rayner in a recording studio, Nick Partridge at the London Lighthouse, and Lord Winston who is photographed in his London home.

Born in Germany, and brought up in the United States, Julia Fullerton-Batten studied photography in England and after undertaking work experience for Vogue, she spent five years working in London as a freelance photographic assistant. Her own career took off after a series of still life observations made on an extended trip to Vietnam won a number of awards and the interest of agents. She is now recognised for her fine art photography as well as portraits, urban landscapes, and still life photography taken on location. Fullerton-Batten has been a regular finalist in both the John Kobal Award and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. Her work has recently been exhibited in the Association of Photographers Awards, Photo-London, and Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. Her exhibition Teenage Stories will be shown at the Charing Cross Gallery in June 2006.

Notes to Editors

• This commission has been funded through the Deloitte acquisition fund. Deloitte is the Gallery's Contemporary Photography Displays Partner helping the Gallery to develop its contemporary photography programme. This is the second in a series of photographic commissions to focus on an important area in public life.
• The portraits have been shot with a Technicarden, 5x4 plate camera.
• For more information on Julia Fullerton-Batten please go to www.juliafullerton-batten.com Fullerton-Batten's London agent is Wendy Jackson 0207 437 3268 and her fine art photography is represented by Eric Frank Fine Art, 020 7630 5972.

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