Sylvia Plachy

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Sylvia Plachy (born 1943) is a Hungarian/American photographer.

Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II.^[1]

Plachy's photo essays and portraits have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Granta, Artforum, Fortune, and other publications. They have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Berlin, Budapest, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Paris and Tokyo.

Sylvia's book, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home (2005), is a personal history of Central Europe with photographs and text, received a Golden Light Award for best book in 2004. Her first book, Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour, won the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography for best publication in 1991.

Her other books are Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry with James Ridgeway (1996) and Signs & Relics (2000) and Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker (2007). Plachy has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lucie Award (2004). She has taught and lectured widely.

Plachy lives in New York City and is the mother of César and Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody.