My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. Iโm always looking for a small moment that is a revelation
Gregory CrewdsonThere's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.
Gregory CrewdsonI think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.
Gregory CrewdsonMy pictures are about a search for a momentโa perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.
Gregory Crewdson