Beneath the Surface

The photographer Gregory Credson was featured on the CBS Sunday Morning Show this weekend and I had to put some of his pics up for you to see. I'll be brief because his picture explain it better than I can. Simply put, he takes a thought provoking snap shot into a persons life. On the surface it appears as one thing, then as you look deeper it becomes something slightly different.












To get this moment in camera he will go to very elaborate and expensive means. Building sets, shutting down streets, everything and anything to get his vague and abstract message across to us. The one consistency in all of his pictures is that he'll typically shoot when it's dusk or recreate it in the studio. That time and moment when natural light is quickly leaving us and it's beginning to mix with the florescent light, when reality is being distorted by fiction. It creates a sense of dread, something is going to happen and we have to use our imaginations to figure out what it's going to be.












Click here on the CBS Sunday Morning Show to see the expose on him or go to Aperture 190 to see more of his photos. To really understand his photos better you'll want to see them big.