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Gregory Crewdson works more like a big-budget film director than a photographer: he commandeers entire American towns for location shoots; employs actors and a full production crew, and tinkers with the image in post-production. He specialises in unexplained suspended moments, and in these new pictures from his Beneath the Roses series, those moments take place in a fairly banal yet undeniably weird and atmospheric outdoor setting. It all makes for a deliberately mysterious, Twin-Peaks-like experience. Crewdson has said that he loves the still image because viewers can bring their own story to it. In truth, you have little choice, because you won't get many answers from Crewdson.

Holly Kyte