Sans Limites- Theo Gosselin

 ‘Theo Gosselin presents a glimpse of a life beyond boundaries’

The photobook is am deconstructing is Sans Limites. The book by Theo Gosselin explores the free world of runaway people in mostly landscape forms. 

 The result of the photographer´s most recent road trips across the US, Spain, Scotland and native France, 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.

Throughout the book we are exposed to images mostly from midday to dusk; this may signify the freedom to adventure anywhere and everywhere. Deliberately cinematic, 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.

As the viewer you can see this from the mixture of staged and candid photos of people in environments like the woods, lakes forests, in nature in general. Images of people being playful in lakes, running around; also images from inside cars. This implies running away, being on a journey. The Genre is documentary, recording real life events with photos. Freedom is a flowing motive throughout the book, as within the runaways in these images, they seem to have a sense of happiness and excitement in them.

Sans Limites is a portrait shaped book with landscape images in it. Some of the images spread across a whole two pages, others just using the one. I like this as it adds some contrast to the book, not all the pages are the same, its creative and more interesting to look at as the viewer.