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"Helene Schmitz's photographs of buds, bursting and growth zones are the most hopefully obscene portraits I have seen in a long time. Helene Schmitz succeeds in building images of stickiness, downiness, throbbing and twisting that in its splendor takes one's breath away." Ingela Lind, Dagens Nyheter (Daily News) April 2003.

"The plants in Helene Schmitz's large glossy color prints the prisoners of nature: living yet doomed to bud, burst, bloom, seed, die, all according to a set pattern that they have not chosen themselves. There are certainly many others who have photographed or painted greatly magnified plant parts before Helene Schmitz, but not in this enticingly, juicy manner." Susanne Pagold, Fotografisk Tidskrift (Photographic Journal), August 2003.

In 2003, Blow Up was nominated for the Swedish August Prize.

BLOW UP

Natur & Kultur (2003)

Hardcover, 148 pages. Contains 77 colour photographs by Helene Schmitz.

Authors: Jessica Clayton, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Carl-Johan Malmberg, Christoph Cox, Marie Lundquist, Katja Grillner, Jenny Hermansson and Monica Björk.