Theo Gosselin is a French photgrapher, born in Le Havre, a small harbour city in Normandy. He grew up surrounded by the ocean and was in love with the outdoors. His involvement with photography started from an early age when he saw his parents taking photos on their analog cameras, Gosselin began to capture things like butterflies and flowers in his garden, later becoming more skilled he studied photography at Art College. His friends and his life became his subject “not as a photographer, but as a teenager who wants to capture memories just like everyone else.”

Gosselin’s approach to photography is very simple, no sets, no staging, just allowing moments to happen. This is ultimately how I intend to photograph a large proportion of my own shoots, simply spending time with those that are most important within my life and capturing them as they are. This is to give a true representation of the people themselves and present images of raw quality.

The image above, from a collection of Gosselin’s work, features an over the shoulder perspective of a car journey, with a strong depth of field. Although this image appears simple, I feel that it is encapsulates the intentions of Gosselin’s work well, as well as his relationships with those around him. As Gosselin, shoots over the shoulder, it is almost implying that both him and the subject share the same perspective, as if their journey is both the same, which to me created a strong photograph in terms of it’s deeper connotations, which include friendship, togetherness and even sharing. Ultimately I feel like this image is telling us that Gosselin is on a journey.

Here, despite the fact that the subjects face remains hidden, I feel this image encapsulates the living conditions and lifestyle that Gosselin surrounds himself in. The light shining through the windscreen highlights the subject, yet this cloud of smoke distorts him, which in itself is interesting as a composition, as we are forced to take a closer look at the photograph to work out who we are looking at. But also, I gather an impression that this lifestyle comes with ‘clouds and sunshine’, there is freedom, but with this becomes instability and not knowing where you may end up.