Theo Gosselin is one of my favourite photographers as I love his photobook ‘Sans Limites’. The photographs from this collection were taken on road trips in the US, Scotland, France and Spain, his photos are full of youthful energy and raw emotion, captivating the viewer with stories of freedom, love and friendship.
Sans Limites presents a significant evolution of Gosselin´s long term project;photography sur le motif (“of the object(s) or what the eye actually sees”) and his attempt to communicate the actual visual conditions seen at the time of the photographing.
This links to my own project because he shows love and friendship in places he travels too which is what I aim to do in my photographs. The journies he goes on with the people he cares about and capturing them as if they’re in the moment, showing the environments he surrounds himself in.
I like the way the photographer uses the light in his photographs, as there is a light inside the van which creates a warmth about the van. I also like the use of natural and artificial lighting combined. His photography skills are also amazing as he captures the stars in great quality he must do this by the use of high exposure or perhaps he edits his photographs after by using HDR in photoshop. This is good because therefore by being inspired by his photographs it allows me to do a lot of editing and use a lot of settings.
The photograph below also stands out to me as the 4 people are being very risky and standing naked ontop of a van, which you probably wouldn’t do if you were surrounded by a lot of people, however they don’t care as they’re alone and our representing their own personal environment when they are with one another.
As shown in the photograph below one can see that Gosselin’s photography is deliberately cinematic and reveals his friends in the act of escaping from their regular lives into newly enticing and perilous modes of existence, ever in search of the persistent though elusive idea of freedom. I love the use of natural lighting and depth of field in this photograph, how one really focus’ on the wild hair being blown about, being carefree, and also focus’ on soft lighting on her skin, which adds depth to the photograph.
I love the use of colour in this photograph, how the colour of the sea brings out the intensity of his eyes, and how the background has soft lighting, this really brings out the emotions in the photograph.
