Helene Schmitz

Last updated
Helene Schmitz in 2012 Helene Schmitz - Augustprisnominerade i fackboksklassen 2012 (cropped).JPG
Helene Schmitz in 2012

Helene Schmitz is a Swedish photographer born 1960. In her work, Helene Schmitz is interested in how nature's described in science, art and literature. Schmitz investigates how these activities filters our understanding and her work often makes us question our preconceptions of nature. After graduating with a BA in History of Art and Cinema, she started working with photography. Today, Schmitz regularly holds exhibitions in Scandinavia and in France and her pictures have been published world-wide in National Geographic. [1]

Contents

In February 2015, her hitherto largest solo exhibition will take place at Dunkers kulturhus in Helsingborg, exhibiting photors from four of her latest projects.

Exhibitions

In France, Schmitz has been represented in several international group exhibitions, including an open-air exhibition in Jardin des Plantes in 2007, Transphotographiques in Lille (2009) and Arts and Nature in Daumain de Chaumont sur Loire in 2011. In Sweden, Schmitz's works have been exhibited at galleries as well as public locations. A semi-permanent collection of her plant portraits was shown in Stockholms subway station Mariatorget during 2012–13.

Schmitz's photographs have been published in a number of international books and magazines including the New York-based magazine Cabinet, which published photos from Schmitz's Kudzu Project in 2014. Helene Schmitz's work is represented at The Swedish Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

Books

Part of Schmitz's time is dedicated to publishing photography books. Schmitz's first book Blow Up was published in 2003 and showed extreme close-ups on plants. Blow Up was nominated to the prestigious Swedish Literary prize August Price. In 2007, Schmitz published her second book A Passion for Systems - Linnaeus and the Dream of Order. The photos from this book were published world-wide in National Geographic, and the book was translated into English, French and Japanese. Schmitz's latest book Ur Regnskogens Skugga was published in 2011 and nominated for Augustpriset in 2012. It also received the Swedish Publishing Prize in 2012.

Prizes & Awards

In 2003, Schmitz's book Blow Up was nominated to the Swedish Literary prize August Price. In 2006 Schmitz received the award Photographer of the Year by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency for her photographs in the book A Passion for Systems - Linnaeus and the Dream of Order.

In 2007, A Passion for Systems - Linnaeus and the Dream of Order (Swedish edition) won the Swedish Publishing Award in the category Magnificent Work. In 2007, A Passion for Systems - Linnaeus and the Dream of Order also received a diploma from The Royal Swedish Library (Kungliga Biblioteket) and Swedish Book Art (Svensk Bokkonst), the award was given with the motivation "Beautiful photographs and a design that creates a serene context".

In 2014 Schmitz was a finalist in the international photography competition "Prix de la Photo Camera Clara".

Related Research Articles

Sebastião Salgado Brazilian photographer

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

Eve Arnold American photojournalist

Eve Arnold, OBE (honorary), FRPS (honorary) was an American photojournalist, long-resident in the UK. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. She was the first woman to join the agency.

Lennart Nilsson Swedish photographer

Lennart Nilsson was a Swedish photographer noted for his photographs of human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography. He was also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists.

Mattias Klum

Mattias Klum is a Swedish freelance photographer and film producer in natural history and cultural subjects. He is the son of Swedish academic educator Arne Klum (1925-2016) and Ingegärd Klum, née Stefanson. Klum has worked full-time as a freelance photographer since 1986, and as a cinematographer and director on numerous film and television projects since 1994. Klum describes and portrays animals, plants, and natural and cultural settings in the form of articles, books, films, lectures and exhibitions.

<i>The Family of Man</i> 1950s photography global exhibition

The Family of Man was an ambitious exhibition of 503 photographs from 68 countries curated by Edward Steichen, the director of the New York City Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) Department of Photography. According to Steichen, the exhibition represented the "culmination of his career." The title was taken from a line in a Carl Sandburg poem.

Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker.

Esther Bubley American photographer

Esther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She worked for several agencies of the American government and her work also featured in several news and photographic magazines.

Anders Petersen (photographer) Swedish photographer

Anders Petersen is a Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm. He makes intimate and personal documentary-style black and white photographs. Petersen has published more than 20 books.

Dayanita Singh Indian photographer

Dayanita Singh is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books.

Linda Connor is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California. She is known for her landscape photography.

Jens Olof Lasthein is a Swedish freelance photographer. His widely exhibited work principally covers scenes before and after the war in former Yugoslavia and the areas across Europe bordering the old Iron Curtain.

Jeppe Wikström Swedish book publisher and photographer (born 1963)

Jeppe Olof Wikström is a Swedish book publisher and photographer. He is also part owner of the publishing house Bokförlaget Max Ström in Stockholm.

Anna Riwkin-Brick Russian-born Swedish photographer

Anna Riwkin-Brick or just Anna Riwkin was a Russian-born Swedish photographer.

Laurent Elie Badessi is a French photographer and artist based in New York City.

Andrew Biraj is a Bangladeshi photojournalist.

Tomasz Gudzowaty is a Polish documentary filmmaker, portrait and art photographer, who gained international recognition through numerous publications and awards, most notably – in World Press Photo in which he succeeded nine times. He is also a multiple winner or finalist of such competitions as: Pictures of the Year International, NPPA's Best of Photojournalism, International Photography Awards, B&W Spider Awards, and National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

Erik Johansson (artist) Swedish-born artist based in Prague (born 1985)

Erik Johansson is a Swedish-born artist based in Prague who creates surreal images by combining photographic elements and other materials into surreal scenes. He captures ideas by combining images in innovative ways to create what looks like a real photograph, but creates logical inconsistencies to impart an effect of surrealism.

Jesse Marlow (1978) is an Australian street photographer, editorial and commercial photographer who lives and works in Melbourne.

Mikael Jansson (photographer)

Mikael Jansson is a Swedish fashion photographer and director. Jansson regularly contributes to publications such as American and French Vogue, Interview Magazine as well as photographing campaigns for luxury brands such as Estée Lauder, Coach, Calvin Klein and Louis Vuitton.

Gerry Johansson Swedish photographer

Gerry Johansson is a Swedish photographer who lives in Höganäs in southern Sweden. He makes "straight and pragmatic" photographs with "an objective view of a geographic location." His books include America,Sweden,Germany,Antarctic,Tokyo, and American Winter. His work is held in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, where he has had solo exhibitions. He has been awarded the Region Skånes kulturpris and the Lars Tunbjörk Prize.

References

  1. "Helene Schmitz". National Geographic. Retrieved 30 April 2016.