Brian Ulrich is a photographic artist exploring the bottom reaches, the crumbs, of consumer society. That which we desire must go somewhere after its use is discarded. Here, in his thrift store images, he traces upwards the route such items take.
I am very interested in how our desire for stuff has a negative impact on the most impoverished amongst us for want is replaced with need and the monetary spoils of a poor persons low wage is then directed back upward to those who first made the product, then sold the product, then bought it back cheaply, only to be resold, are now contributing to a cycle of poverty.
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