Univers d'Artistes: Christian Tode sees the beauty everywhere

July 29, 2017

Christian Tode sees the beauty everywhere

A new member of UDA

I met Christian Tode on Facebook, my gold mine, and I was immediatly conquered by the large palette of his talent. From street life to poses with an assumed vintage touch to superb artistic nudes with all kind of women, Christian Tode passes from a genre to another with a surprising ease and a deep talent. I tried in his first exhibition and not the last to show you how much what I say is true.

Dear Christian, I'm honored to welcome you in the mag and the collective. Thank you my friend ! 😊

"Morning chat"

Art Models Denisa Hemská and Eliška Kubanikova

I was born in Prague and at the age of 14 I got my first Flexaret camera. But even before I assisted to my father in his darkroom, was mixing developers, fixer, toners.

In the days when digital cameras first appeared on the market, I wanted to try them as well. But after three years in the electronic world, once, within one week, I experienced several strange coincidences that convinced me to return to the classical photography.

I got one of the B&W magazine issues with beautiful BW photos from the '50s showing atmosphere of american night clubs at that time. Then my grandfather passed away and when going through his ex-belongings, in the attic, I found couple of glass plates. These were seventy years old photo glass plates and – immediately – I knew that I´d wanted to process my photographies in this manner and came back to the classic or maybe vintage photography. I chose tradition. The degree of freedom that surrounds us today is higher then ever before. We have the opportunity to choose our way, which was not always obvious. This option however has its drawbacks in the application. Sometimes we are waisting time in new and innovative approaches and security of truthful expression is fading away.

"Lady with a flower"

"Modern girls"

Art Models Eliška Kubaníková and Denisa Hemska

For me photography hides a lot of beauty inside. Beauty that we can see around us. It is a mysterious world of dialogue between the photographer and the resulting photo and – finally – between viewer and the photo. A world that allows you to look inside, through lens into the other soul. Photography is soul of all the moments that have just disappeared.

"Where have you been"

I believe that everyone has his own god, never mind the name. My god likes natural light. That´s why I prefer taking photos outside, in the open air. We weren't born for living in studios . I am pilgrim looking for my world of morning brumes full of hidden emotions.

Showtime !

Some photographies of a beautiful series with Art Model Stana :