"These pictures are about creating a world. I’ve always had these images inside my head that I want to get out into the world. These towns are just a backdrop for a more submerged psychological drama. It is really a projection from my own story where I have explored my own fears, anxieties and desires." Gregory Crewdson
Crewdson was raised in New York City and his father was a psychoanalyst who practiced in the basement of the family home.
What was going on there was a complete mystery, Crewdson tried to eavesdrop on the sessions and hence the hidden psychology of his work.
Among other things he is credited with exploring lives of quiet desperation in towns abandoned by industry, although Crewdson denies there is a strong socioeconomic element to his work.
