Brian Ulrich

So I just wrote a big long blog post about how much I dig this guy's work, and it was so detailed and great but it didn't post and now I have to start from the beginning and I don't feel like explaining again. So the jist of it is: I stumbled upon his work through blogs, and it caught my eye because it is similar to what I'm doing for my final topic. His ideas are more developed than mine, but they are inspiring because now I feel like I could take my own project into a completely new direction that I hadn't thought of. So there are a lot of images I'm about to post and I'm not going to talk about all of them, but the ones that stopped me in my tracks will have a little bit of a caption.

The above image really catches my eye. I used to work at an outlet mall and there for understand the complete chaotic mess that is left at the end of the day for cleanup. It would happen every day, and I never thought of it as a photograph, but now I'm going to pay more attention to things like this (things that not many do pay attention to, obviously) when I'm out shopping.

This is just so simple, it is almost abstract the way that the frame has been broken up into basic shapes and colors. But at the same time, there's something beautiful and mysterious about it, which are qualities that I want people to notice in my own work.

  I really like the semi-abandoned feel of this image. Although I did state that I don't want to photograph abandonment, this image is inspiring because I see places like this everywhere. It's not completely abandoned, it is empty, but for some reason still kept well and provided with electricity. This is a subject I would not mind trying--Stores that have gone out of business.