Julia Fullerton-Batten's work "Unadorned" depicts people with a fuller more voluminous figure. She was inspired by the painting of old masters. Using soft candle like lighting and modern days props she shows her naked models in a modern context.
For the people finding the images grotesque or disturbing , here is a beautiful statement by the photographer; Throughout most of the last few millennia, the most sought-after female forms were represented by curvaceous bodies and in Rubens’ case of outright corpulence. It is only in very recent times, since Twiggy and Barbie came to the fore in the 1960s, that our narcissistic society reinforced by the media and advertising now interprets the ideal figure to be ultra-thin, enhanced by eating disorders and plastic surgery. Even men are beginning to be caught up in this vicious circle. Today’s harsh judgements of obese persons is particularly prevalent in the West; in many other cultures corpulence is still highly regarded today.
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