Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
Gregory CrewdsonI think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.
Gregory CrewdsonI think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
Gregory CrewdsonSince a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious awareness of any kind of literal narrative. And that's why I really try not to pump up motivation or plot or anything like that.
Gregory Crewdson