Christian Lange was born in Brussels in 1967.
Already in the 1950s, his father worked as a laboratory assistant in a photographic laboratory (Agfacolor Gevacolor).
There he learned in particular the techniques of color photography, which was just beginning to develop. At the same time, he machine-gunned for his pleasure with a professional camera (a Zeiss Ikon with Tessar 3.5 lens 6x6 format and a Makina Plaubel with Triotar 2.8 lens 6x6 format): architecture, landscapes, geometric shapes that would have may have gone unnoticed by others.
There he learned in particular the techniques of color photography, which was just beginning to develop. At the same time, he machine-gunned for his pleasure with a professional camera (a Zeiss Ikon with Tessar 3.5 lens 6x6 format and a Makina Plaubel with Triotar 2.8 lens 6x6 format): architecture, landscapes, geometric shapes that would have may have gone unnoticed by others.

He passes this passion on to his son.
So in 1990, at 23, he bought his first film camera.
He uses it without counting.
Eight years later, he dares to use digital technology, which is only in its infancy.
Convinced of the performance and quality of this technique, he made it his own.
From 1996 to the end of 1998, organizer of press trips for tour operators, he traveled mainly in the Mediterranean basin: Malta marked him, just like Italy and Turkey, without forgetting Tunisia, Spain or even Portugal.
He begins his discovery of colors: red, fuchsia, purple are the first to inspire him.
At the end of these peregrinations, he puts down his suitcases for the first time and it is in the mythical city of Cannes that he settles down.
Far from the greyness of his childhood, he is amazed at the ocher, yellow, orange facades, colors that complete his favorite palette.
But observers already notice the almost constant presence of three additional “signature” colors: black, yellow and red.
And it is indeed a signature, or at least an affirmation: that of the artist's “Belgianness”.
Despite his itineraries, the Belgian identity remains deeply rooted in his heart and guts.
It is also recognized worldwide and many Belgian artists, from all disciplines, wear the colors of the little kingdom high.
For Christian Lange it has therefore become a label ... Black, yellow and red!
He won't say the word "pride" if you talk to him about it, but it is, and fully assumed.
Until Saint-Barthélemy ...
SAINT-BARTHÉLEMY
He vividly remembers the colorful Banania tins from the 1970s.
The urge to continue his journey taunting him, he flies to Guadeloupe, where he finds the images that this advertisement had unconsciously generated in his mind.
Then Saint-Barth opens up to him.
It was there, on this quest for childhood, that he set his anchor in the spring of 2005. "I did not come here to get lost, but to find myself," he says. In 2005, photography was still just an amateur's passion for him.
Encouraged by those close to him who saw him as a real talent, he became a professional photographer.

The first works entrusted to him were the covers, as well as the interior illustration photos of guides in Saint-Barthélemy.
Then things are linked: real estate agencies call on him to capture the image of villas, just like hotels or restaurants who want to immortalize their private parties, etc.
In search of the best visual, he opts for the aerial in order to capture the rarest moments of the Saint-Barth Bucket.
This regatta brings together some thirty of the most beautiful private sailboats in the world.
“I do it for my immediate pleasure and that of the moment when I share my pictures.
I think this idea came to mind as part of a press trip that I organized aboard the Star Clipper, a majestic sailboat, for the official opening ceremonies of the Lisbon Universal Exhibition in 1998 ".
We take our past in our trunks ...

A LOOK

This instinctive works on feeling.
He admits a predilection for the square format: "I see in a square", he insists.
This necessarily implies a more elaborate creativity in the way of capturing time and representing it.
It therefore goes through a process of its own, of composition and decomposition of graphics.
"So-called classic formats can sometimes prove to be useful," he adds.
He likes to change the colors of his photographs.
"Why necessarily present a creation with its original colors? ", He is surprised.
This is how plants, under his gaze and through his work, can be tinted blue, orange, red ... or how a sailboat in the open sea can turn blue, red, yellow.
Some of these photographs can be found today with art lovers in France, Italy, Russia, Canada and the United States (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Beverly Hills).
His areas of interest extend from the air sector, to sailboats, through architecture and airplanes.
For him, Yann Arthus Bertrand is an eccentric who has found an original way to take photos.
However, since Christian Lange discovered aerial photography, he has recognized that "it is the third dimension".
One of his aspirations?
Take pictures for a humanitarian organization.

RETROPSPECTIVE (looking over the shoulder)
Looking back is not always used to fuel regrets or pride, but can be a way of looking back.
The one that Christian Lange could throw towards his “Saint-Barth years” would begin with an innovative series at the time, devoted to the famous Buckets, a prestigious regatta bringing together the most beautiful sailing ships in the world. Close to several owners, the artist had access to the most beautiful of the most beautiful private sailboats present.
This resulted in a magnificent privileged series, a sort of VIP inside look at an envied and unrecognized world, the series of which quickly and entirely sold out.
Another milestone was the discovery of New York, through a now famous series called OrangYork.
Shots of emblematic places of the Big Apple, with a rather surreal look, close to the universe of Magritte.
Bright colors, fiery, for a fiery look at a passionate discovery of the big apple ...
Cash Money Millionaire will be a kind of bling bling look at a fringe of society who likes to look at themselves.
A somewhat Pop Art and flashy series ...
the woman getting off a private jet, her little dog under her arm, is a “shouting” and exemplary cliché.
Finally, Paréidolies marks another turning point in the “Saint-Barth years”.
It is as if the artist had taken scissors and a knife, emerged from society magazines since the sixties… had drawn favorite images and portraits from them, to rework them in collage mode.
This gives square works, critical glances on our world, down to details that must almost be found under the microscope!
This is also the interest of this recent series, which has not finished surprising.
Even Martin Luther King seems to be composed of powders of all colors, thrown to the winds… but also small shards of the author's gaze, strewn in the endless backgrounds of a composite creation which is only one example. ...
And since a period only really ends when marked by a closing event ...
The book for this period of eleven years spent in Saint Barthélemy will close with the forthcoming publication of a work, an Art Book containing a hundred of the outstanding works of this period.
We will find examples of each artistic series described here, but a particular look will be devoted to Pareidolies.

OUTLOOK
At certain times, life joins the work ... lines cross, pieces of existence, concrete realities, new desires, health too ... and they sometimes join together, to constitute a new perspective, a fresh look at the future, a turning point in life.
For Christian Lange, after the enriching years in Saint-Barthélemy, it is time to think about returning to the metropolis.
First, to be able to spread its artistic wings more widely, but also because of health problems.
Nothing vital, but a need for more complex care than what can be found on the islands.
It is important to be in good health to be able to continue to evolve, to travel, to pursue your quest!

Artistically, the Hexagon allows other flights, by its reputation, its influence, its openness to the world ...
It is also the best basis for new adventures, like this New York gallery which is closely interested in the artist's work and wishes to exhibit it.
Other American projects also await it beyond this planned departure in 2016.
But the balance sheet of the Saint-Barthélemy years is also made up of travels, discoveries and explorations.
New York and the now famous OrangYork series, marked by orange tones of fire ... But also shoots.
In the heart of Big Apple it was for artists and a DJ, while in Los Angeles shots were taken for a prestigious Hotel… Miami, Key West, San Francisco, Las Vegas or Vancouver…
Were so many human and artistic steps crossed with happiness.

SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
Strangely enough, Christian Lange's sources of inspiration are not found in photography, but in painting and sculpture.
It was Belgian surrealists such as René Magritte, Paul Devaux and Jean-Michel Folon who seduced him and sharpened his imagination. Or Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró.
And of course, because he too uses and abuses the deformation, the sculptor César Baldaccini. "I appreciate these artists, explains the photographer, for the forms resulting from the imagination, for the deformation of the elements illustrated but above all, in fact, for their use of colors".
These colors which shape, in their own way, the life of artists.