Gosselin’s photography reveals 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.
Gosselin was born near Le Havre in Normandy in 1990. Enthusiastic about drawing, music, and cinema, he chose a path through the art school, and graduated in 2012 as a graphic designer in Amiens. He started photography around 2007, and it Became a passion of his. He loves to capture the simple life, love, good and bad moments, his friends and his adventures. The subjects in Théo Gosselin’s images are friends rather than models, and the situations are not mythic constructions but glimpses of an underground lifestyle in a post-9/11 world in which social media has blurred the boundaries between public and private, and between being documented and simply being.
I chose to focus on Theo Gosselin as I saw that his work had significant relations towards my idea due to the fact that Theo’s work is taken in a documentary style way however, the images also focus on the lifestyle of the subjects throughout. The concept behind his images I believe linked towards my idea strongly too as a lot of Theo’s images are of drugs, alcohol and various other things that could easily be seen within a skateboard lifestyle. Furthermore, Theo’s image have a very raw feeling to them which gives me thorough inspiration towards the photos I want to capture as I believe having raw, gritty images have a stronger effect on the audience.