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.

Born near Le Havre in Normandy in 1990, Théo Gosselin grew up with the sea, the wind, the forest, and the sound of electric guitars, echoing in the deserted streets of this grey city from the north of France. Passionate 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 his reason to live. He loves to capture the simple life, love, good and bad moments, his friends and his adventures. Eternal traveler, Europe and USA and share his way of life with the people He loves ; because the truth is in wide open spaces and in the heart of the characters that meet  along the way.

At times, Gosselin´s work approaches something akin to poésie bucolique; his photographs representing modern day pastoral landscapes that resemble 21st century equivalents of Poussin's Et in Arcadia ego, Manet's Déjeuner sur L'herbe or Cézanne's Les Grandes Baigneuses. At other times, his images capture moments more resonant of Bacchanalian scenes painted by Titian, Rubens or Levêque. 

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 and post-AIDS world in which social media has blurred the boundaries between public and private, and between being documented and simply being. 

In august 2012, he made his first motion picture, "Goodbye Horses", a road movie in which he is an actor with 4 friends. They bought a van in NY city and they drove 20 000 km across the USA to LA. The movie will be available in spring 2013.

Young, free and immortal.

Education

DNAP graphic design, ESAD amiens, 2012

Partial Publication List

 (includes fine art press and editorial commissions)

Desilusion, Snatch, Union, Neon, Paulette, From, Lets zine, Fisheye, Fast, Phoshore, Sunday morning at the river...

Exhibitions

Goodbye Horses, Vilnius LITHUNIA, July - 2014

Goodbye Horses, Ground control, Paris FR, June - 2014

Goodbye Horses, La Lune des Pirates, Amiens FR, Oct - Dec 2013

Goodbye Horses, International film festival, Du grain à démoudre, le Havre, FR, Nov 2013

Fast West, Galerie Spree, Paris, FR, July - Aug 2013

Fast West, Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, Arles, FR, July 2013

Youth of Today, Arty Party, , Maison de la photographie, Lille, FR, March 2012

Youth of Today, Horror Picture Tea, Paris, FR, Feb 2011

Youth of Today, Théatre des bains douches, le Havre, FR, Sept - Dec 2009

Competition jury

J’aime le voyage/Nikon, Paris, dec 2013

Paulette for reveurs, Paris, FR, Nov 2013

Vitamin water, shine bright, Europe, july 2013

Nikon, Sur la route, Paris, FR, 2013

HTC concours Théo Gosselin, Paris, FR, july 2012

Monographs

Sans limites, Edition du Lic, NO 2015

Avec le coeur, Edition du Lic, Oslo, NO, 2014 (reissue)

Rue du bouquet, sketch books, Paris, FR, dec 2013 

Avec le coeur, Edition du Lic, Oslo, NO, April 2013

Awards

Nikon, picture of the week, Le voyage, Paris, FR, 2013

J’aime le voyage, Jury price, Paris, FR, April 2013

Lectures/Visiting Artist

Salon de la photographie, Leïca, Paris, FR, Nov 2014

Salon de la photographie, Fisheye magazine, Paris, FR, Nov 2014

Salon de la photographie, Fisheye magazine, Paris, FR, Nov 2013

Salon de la photographie, Samsung, Paris FR, Nov 2013

Artazar, Signature of «Avec le coeur», Paris, FR, Sept 2013

Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, signature of «Avec le coeur», Arles, FR, july 2013