The phrase 'locate himself' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone in the process of finding their whereabouts, usually in a physical sense, or in relation to their sense of identity or purpose. For example: "He had to take some time away to locate himself after the traumatic experience."
He therefore had to locate himself inside the frame.
Bannon, indeed, seems to be in a constant search for "historic" dramas, and ways to locate himself within them.
He scuttles over to the couch and sits down, fidgeting to locate himself properly within the shot.
These provide reconnaissance information, communications facilities and also the global-positioning system that allows a squaddie to locate himself on the earth's surface to within a few metres.
I felt as if he were seeking not to differentiate himself from others but to locate himself at the core of a consensus.
He is the wild animal who doesn't know who he is: a teen-age narcissist trying to locate himself in the eyes of others.
Mr. Kaplan located himself: "He lives with his family and more than 4,000 books in Cortlandt Manor, New York".
And in the final days of his reign, the General slowly locates himself in the situation of his growing decline.
There is talk, he said, that Mr. Gono "may be strategically locating himself for succession to President Mugabe," who is scheduled to retire in 20 months.
Rather, Goodman locates himself symbolically in the middle of things, from which point he sometimes appears powerless to himself, but from which he can also lecture the theorists on the one hand and the herd on the other.
By the time he has located himself across two potential continents, it's clear that his vagueness has more to do with privacy than indecision; he doesn't even want to say where he goes surfing.
