Artist Statement
Currently Fred is working on two still image projects. He is exploring interior and exterior spaces of downtown Phoenix, including it’s architecture, light and lifestyle condition of older mid-century blended with the new. He is also working on a series of images expressing the diversity of the southwest landscape from ponderosa pine forests, old missions and early frontier town remnants to high elevation creeks and the striking sonoran desert. Fred is using film to capture this imagery and makes silver gelatin prints at Art Intersection in Gilbert, Az. as well printing pigment ink prints at his home studio in downtown Phoenix.
Bio
Recently, Fred moved from the Chicago area to downtown Phoenix where he continues to build his fine art photographic practice and commercial editorial accounts.
Fred Ullrich studied photography at University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and at Arizona State University and holds a Masters Degree in Education from Northern Illinois University. Fred has been making black and white photographs of self directed photo projects since 1970. He worked for nearly three decades at Fermilab, the world renown and Chicago based particle physics research laboratory. There he served as manager of Visual Media Services where he honed his visual skills and photographic interests using still and video cameras documenting the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments.
Fred W. Ullrich