Comments on: Justin Bettman’s Dark Series

By: Jorge Moro

Jorge Moro — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:16:00 +0000

absolutely depressing. I’d shoot myself if I had to work with these images.

By: W van de Kletersteeg

W van de Kletersteeg — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:40:00 +0000

If only I had been familiar with the works of the photographers you have been inspired by. Too bad to read the other comments.

By: W van de Kletersteeg

W van de Kletersteeg — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:30:00 +0000

Wow. Amazing. The first time around I quickly scrolled through the photo’s and they didn’t seem that interesting to me. Only to stop at the first one again and notice the story it tells. I just had to analyze every photo and “read” the amazing single image stories. Truly great work!

By: Jack Strutz

Jack Strutz — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:12:00 +0000

Don’t be naive. Crewdson is by no means the only person who has ever made a photograph of this style. I’d like to see you execute the style of photography Justin does on each of his sets.

And if by some off chance that you could, you should know better than to criticize another artist when you know full well the creative and technical mind that is required to accomplish this style.

By: Darrell Fowler Harris

Darrell Fowler Harris — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:56:00 +0000

Oh Snap! Nice catch.

By: Justin Bettman

Justin Bettman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Yeup! Hope you’re doing well.

By: Rodrigo Villicaña

Rodrigo Villicaña — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up! Now that I think about it I think I know you hahaha you were in the boltron shot in the Forge right? Cheers mate!

By: safesounds

safesounds — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:23:00 +0000

I looked at your other work, I really enjoyed the shoes series quite a bit.
I probably came off as a total douche, I just have a slight obsession with Gregory Crewdson, have followed all of his work and interviews and anything I could get my hands on. So it really is difficult for me to see past that within your series. I mean there are a few photos in your series that I could point to a specific Crewdson photo and everything is just too similar.

But all that aside…shoes, great series.

By: Justin Bettman

Justin Bettman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:19:00 +0000

That first top photo was a collaboration with Ryan Schude. http://ryanschude.tumblr.com/p…

By: Justin Bettman

Justin Bettman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Thank you everyone for the feedback. It goes without saying that I am inspired by Crewdson, I should have mentioned that in the interview. I’m also inspired by other photographers such as Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Erwin Olaf, etc.

To answer Safesound and Rodrigo, I approached Ryan with the idea to do that shoot and we collaborated on it. If you go on Ryan’s tumblr and on my blog we both credit it as a collaboration:

http://ryanschude.tumblr.com/post/22266642993/collaboration-with-ryan-schude-and-justin-bettman
http://www.justinbettman.com/blog/red-house-collaboration-with-ryan-schude/

If you go to my site, I have work that is not in this vein at all.