French photographer Théo Gosselin was born in nearby of Le Havre in 1990. He currently lives and works in Amiens. He graduated in 2012 as a graphic designer in Amiens. He started photography around 2007, and it became his reason to live. He loves to capture the simple life, good and bad moments, and his adventures.

Théo Gosselin pictures are a true admiration to freedom, captured like a snapshot, credits to his film camera that he totally masters. His favourite themes are life, love, his generation, his adventures, and wide-open areas; he is, in simple terms, a young person yearning for independence and a different way of life where harmony with nature and human values are important. Théo Gosselin is the photographer of simple but heart-breaking pictures, which speak the language of feelings and true emotions. The young photographer delicately captures the connection that comes with maturity without using any false pretences or lies. Obsessed with music and cinema, he started to photograph as a way to celebrate love, beauty, friendship and freedom. With a style that is both raw and atmospheric, he captures the world around looking to really feel alive.

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Theo Gosselin’s photography is very simple: no sets, no staging, just allowing moments to happen. style which one would think would not be entirely beneficial to more commercial work. One of the good things about working for commercial photography is that Most of the time he is able to work with his own friends as models, producing moments that feel true to him and to the viewers. When working with professional models or actors, Gosselin prefers to meet them in advance, to ensure that same “organic” and familiar environment is maintained on set. As much as he tries to make these more product-minded shoots his own, the world of commercial photography remains a difficult one for him to feel at home in. “I hate when there are 30 people behind my back, looking at the pictures, drinking coffee,” he says. “When I shoot advertising or commercial, I try to work with a small team to preserve the intimacy of the pictures.” As he so bluntly states — “the clients can stay in the truck or in the tents—a model can’t be true in front of 30 people.”

Theo Gosselin quote when asked what did photography teach you over the years:

“I basically learned life through photography. This is how I met my wife, my friends and so many people. It’s been there in all the good and the bad moments in my life. It also makes me less shy and it’s been a bridge for me to connect with the entire world and live the life I’ve always wanted.”

Theo Gosselin was inspired by his friends and their lives not as a photographer but as a teenager who wants to capture the memories just like everyone else, Along the way, Gosselin took notes from the liberated ways of the American underground culture of the 20th Century.

I love the way Theo Gosselin presents his photoshoots. It shows exactly how teenage life is most of the time because in your teenage era that’s when you get to life your life a little and start new adventures.