Marine biologist by training and profession, Greg Lecoeur decides one day to take flippers and a camera to document his research work. Film and photograph endangered species, the profound changes that climate change imposes on our ecosystem. A true underwater reporter, his work aims to bring the threatened purity of our world to everyone’s attention.
“In the profound silence of Antarctica, the sound of the ice floe cracking, which sometimes precedes the collapse of a block of ice, is indefinable”, writes Greg Lecoeur.
To be a reporter is to inform from writings, audio recordings, films and photos. Even if Greg Lecoeur is not a journalist, his work, which aims to document the environmental changes and the dilemmas of our time, appears today as reports, committed reports.
Invited to come and speak in Biarritz, last Wednesday, June 8, World Ocean Day decreed by the United Nations, Greg Lecoeur presented exhibitions and conferences included in the program of H2Océans which, on the initiative of Oceans Without Borders, aims to raise awareness about ocean life.
The ocean does not digest everything that is thrown at it, let alone the three billion Covid masks that have been thrown into the sea. Questions around the climate emergency are outdated. There is no more procrastinating, we must act.
When to strike consciences, photographers “shoot” the waste on the surface, the plastic in the water, Greg’s approach is the opposite. Filming the infinitely beautiful, the rare, the precious and emphasizing its fragility, and its condemnation to disappear… by our simple fault.
The hawksbill turtle on corals, a critically endangered marine species, or his recent polar expedition to Antarctica with Florian Fisher and freediver Guillaume Néry. Five weeks in contact with the pack ice, diving in water at minus one degree to swim under the icebergs, assess the cracks, and above all live with the animal species. Drop the sailboat’s anchor on a fixed point and stay there to blend in with the scenery and live with the animal species.