Born 1962 in Brooklyn, United States.
Lives and works in Massachusetts, United States.
 
Crewdson is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and the Yale School of Art, where he is now Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography. His career as an artist span more than three decades during which he has produced a succession of widely acclaimed bodies of work, like Beneath the Roses (2003-2008), a series of pictures that took nearly ten years to complete and which employed a crew of more than one hundred. Crewdson’s awards include the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship. He has published more than a dozen photobooks. His work is exhibited widely and is in the permanent collections of institutions around the world.