Tre Crews is a Brooklyn-based photographer. His work in the visual arts incorporates a number of disciplines including industrial design, fabrication, and textiles, which he uses to construct his distinctly dreamlike visions. He’s shot campaigns for brands including Elena Velez, Jane Wade, Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie, and among others, and his work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Architectural Digest, and NATAAL Media, as well as HBO’s Insecure.
Tre’s photography lives in the fertile borderlands between art and science, between the waking world and the world of the mind. Originally a student of biochemistry, he abandoned that pursuit after graduating from university, and began to shoot photography full-time after moving to New York in 2019. But traces of that original discipline remain in his work: Tre pursues his photographic visions with a rigor resembling a scientist at work, experimenting with materials ranging from hand-built LED light boxes to mylar sheets to construct the dreamworld within his images. Tre’s practice is as much about the work done before picking up a camera as it is about the final shot- it’s about the patience and process required to transmute memory into photographic matter.