Sylvia Plachy, born in Budapest, lives in New York. She has had one person shows at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris in New York, the Queens Museum, and in galleries in Homer, Lubljana, Budapest, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Manchester, Aries, Madrid, Perpingnon, Pingyau and Vilnius.

Formerly staff photographer at The Village Voice, and at the New Yorker. Her photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Art Forum, Granta, Metropolis Magazine, Grand Street, New York Magazine and in many other magazines. She is a Guggenheim fellow and the recipient of Lucie Award and the Dr. Erich Salomon award by the German Society for Photography (DGPh). Her photographs are in private collections and also in the MoMA in NY, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the SF Museum and the High Museum. She was a legacy photographer at the Look3 Festival in the summer of 2009 in Charlottesville.

Ms. Plachy has had six books published: SIGNS AND RELICS, 2000; RED LIGHT, 1996; UNGUIDED TOUR, 1990, winner of the Infinity Award for best publication; SELF PORTRAIT WITH COWS GOING HOME, 2004, winner of the Golden Light Award for best book; DE REOJO/OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE, 2007; GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN, 2007 and the catalogue for her current traveling exhibition WHEN WILL IT BE TOMORROW.