In his Turquoise series, Pierre Carreau photographs the Caribbean ocean. Having lived in Saint Barthélemy, he has spent years studying how tropical light transforms the colour, texture and mood of water moment by moment. Turquoise becomes his carefully chosen lens for exploring this relationship between light and fluidity.
His images look like drone shots, but come from a time when they did not exist. Many hours were spent carrying a tripod on his back, finding the perfect view points in the mountains of Saint Barthélemy. The result is high quality images with a remarkable level of detail.
Born in 1972 near Paris into a family of photographers, sculptors, and painters, Pierre Carreau initially resisted the pull and studied business. After years in IT, the artist in him won out, and he returned to photography — first shooting action shots for surf and kite-surf magazines, until the water itself became his subject. In 2004, Pierre moved with his family to Saint Barthélemy, which has been his open-air studio ever since, capturing the island's shifting tropical light and the endless moods of the sea.