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"Christian"
(Czech Republic)
# Statistics
Favourites: 2; Deviations: 71; Watchers: 123
Watching: 95; Pageviews: 3961; Comments Made: 38; Friends: 95
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: DaliFavorite movies: Seven Samurai
Favorite bands / musical artists: Lisa Gerard, Rammstein
Favorite writers: Edgar Allan Poe,
Other Interests: japanese gardens, bonsai, photography, fashion
# About me
I was born in Prague and at the age of 14 I got my first Flexaret camera. Buteven 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.
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.
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.
Christian TODE
# Comments
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