Currently lives and works in South Africa and Africa 1999-2000Professional Photography Practice, London College of Printing, London, England 1971Born Cape Town, South Africa 
Born in 1971 in Cape Town, Pierre Crocquet grew up in Klerksdorp, South Africa, a conservative farming and mining town to the west of Johannesburg. After completing school he studied at the University of Cape Town and graduated with a financial degree. He worked in various large London merchant banks but became disillusioned with the world of finance and abandoned banking to study photography at the London College of Printing. Crocquet returned home to South Africa just after the millennium and his early work focused on life in South Africa and on the African continent. His work evolved and in Crocquet’s third book, Enter Exit (Hatje Cantz 2007), his images focused more on the existential aspect, and not on the physical context, of the individuals photographed within a small, remote multi-racial community. The isolated community became a portal through which to explore facets of the human psyche. Although Crocquet’s subjects are South African, his subject matter has no geographical boundaries. Crocquet's work is dual-faceted - his images explore the human psychology of his sitters and simultaneously reveal the photographer's own introspective examination of the world viewed through his lens. 
2009»Enter Exit«, Seippel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2008»Enter Exit«, Nomad Art Gallery, Brussels 2008»Enter Exit«, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin 2006»Sound Check«, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 
2009»Terriblement beau«, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris 2008AIPAD New York, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff 2008Art Chicago, Galerie Caprice Horn 2008Johannesburg Art Fair, Erdmann Contemporary 2007»Nouvelles Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie«, Bamako, Mali 2007Photo Miami, Galerie Caprice Horn 2007Cornice Art fair, Galerie Caprice Horn 2007Art Cologne, Gallery Caprice Horn 2007»Reality bites«, Gallery Caprice Horn, Berlin 
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris Standard Bank Credit Suisse 
2008NYC Photo Festival – Book Award Nomination – Enter Exit 2008Communication Arts Photographic Annual – Book Award Winner – Enter Exit 2007Photo District News 30 Emerging photographers to watch 2003Brett Kebble Arts Awards finalist for Photography award 2002Mondi award for Photographer of the year 
2007»Enter Exit« – Hatje Cantz, Pierre Crocquet 2005»Sound check« – Bell Roberts Publishers, Pierre Crocquet 2003»On Africa Time« – Bell Roberts Publishers, Pierre Crocquet |
