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exploring taste—santa margherita gruppo vinicolo places—st. barth, pearl of the antilles

THE WAVES OF economy and eventually work in the tech industry for a while. But art con-
tinued to beckon him and after a couple of years in the office, Carreau de-
PIERRE CARREAU cided to pick up photography, focusing on sport illustrations on surf and
kite-surf as he practices both.
In 2004, a “dramatic lifestyle change” – or that’s what a magazine would pin it
down to – saw him move to the Island of St. Barth with his wife and children.
“We seized the opportunity while we had it” Carreau says, “adjusting was eas-
ier than expected. The island is small, well organized and you have everything
Words CRISTIANO DE MAJO Photography PIERRE CARREAU you need. Adapting was quick and painless”. The French photographer defines
Born in 1972 in the outskirts of Paris, raised in a family of artists, Pierre the island as a “Mix of French taste, Caribbean generosity and American he-
Carreau’s biography reads like a map of forking paths. Probably due to his donism”. He believes that being on the luxury tourism route helped the island
artistic lineage, his first act of rebellion was to become a “square”, to study to preserve its environment to civilian balance.

photography CYRIL FOLLIOT/AFP/Getty Images

ST. BARTH, PEARL

OF THE ANTILLES

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A small and efficient island defined by French taste, Caribbean generosity and American hedonism. An
overseas community made up of 9,000 people, where great food, tasteful design, wellness and visual
elegance come together. With its trendy clubs and former Rockefeller villas, Saint-Barthélemy is a well- 1.
preserved Caribbean jewel. In Carreau’s pictures, water and sea waves
are frozen in time; they are almost sculptural

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