JARREAU Jean

Nationality

Belgium Belgium

Biography

Jean Jarreau has made extraordinary photographs for over thirty years. He is a Belgian photographer born in Antwerp, who moved to the Caribbean in 1991. He lives in St.Maarten-St.Martin and St.Barth’s in the winter season and in the Antibes area in the South of France during the summer. Jean Jarreau started to work in the early eighties mainly as a fashion photographer and photographed female models for many fashion designers, lingerie and swimsuit brands. While living in the Caribbean he specialized in aerial photography and photographing exclusive villas, mega and super yachts, often blending beautiful photo models with superb villa interiors and executive yachts. Jean Jarreau is also know for his commercial advertising photography. Jean Jarreau loves to work with female photo models, his photographs are mainly done with little or no makeup at all, mostly outside in very natural and tropical settings, as he wants to capture the moment, the beauty of women and natural light in front of his camera. He prefers to work alone with the models or with only a very small team, so there are no distractions, just the feeling of trust in the model and photographer. Many of the museum art photographs are pictures in black and white or sepia of classic and vintage yachts. Jean Jarreau has made thousands of photographs with the most beautiful Classic, Vintage, Spirit of Tradition and other Classic Yachts at Caribbean, Mediterranean and US Classic Regattas as well as on board and on the water shots of hundreds of Classic Yachts all over the world. His work is widely and Internationally published and appreciated.
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