The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My … - Gregory Crewdson

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. . . It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Gregory Crewdson

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

Alien, Angst, Desire, Exotic, Landscape, Photograph

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I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

Beauty, Hope, Look, Photography, Reveal, Show

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Anxiety, Beautiful, Beauty, Edge, Isolation, Photography

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. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation

Everyday, Moment, Photography, Revelation, Time

My pictures are about a search for a moment—a 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.

Beautiful, Inspirational, Moment, Photography, Pictures, Process

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

Artist, Impossible, Story, Task, Tasks, Trying