Théo Vanasse

Born Montréal, 1991. Lives Bedford-Stuyvesant. Mother a pianist, father an architect. He learned to wait before he learned to shoot.

Concordia, 2009 to 2013, under Donigan Cumming. New York after, a year of editorial studio work carrying lights. Paris in 2016, six months on a Magnum bursary with Susan Meiselas. That phase set the temperature.

Fashion took him from 2017 to 2020: Margiela, Acne, AnOther, three CR covers. He left it in a single night in February 2020 after a five-day Italian Vogue shoot. He has not gone back.

Eleven months in São Paulo, nine in Mexico City. Sertão Faces ran in Aperture in 2021. Casting work began in 2023 — Tiba Vision, Models 1, Diesel, Lemaire. Now full-time scout for REVERCE, rotating through eight cities, three to four days each.

He looks for reference depth, not beauty. Posture before face. Friction in the line. He distrusts cattle-calls and beauty-editorial. He keeps one Moleskine per city, marine blue, one face per page.

„What I deliver is real. Whether I am, is another question."