Julia Fullerton-Batten is a fine art photographer renowned for her highly cinematic visual story- telling. Her large-scale projects are based around specific themes. Contortion was inspired by feelings of extreme anxiety and loneliness offset by inner strength, humour and fortitude when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Each image in the series embellishes her subject matter in a number of thought-provoking narrative “stories” using staged tableaux and sophisticated lighting techniques. She insinuates visual tensions in her images and imbues them with a mystique that teases the viewer into continuously re-examining the picture; something new coming to the fore each time.