Sylvia Plachy

Plachy's work has been featured in many New York City magazines and newspapers and she "was an influential staff photographer for The Village Voice.

Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II.

Plachy's family moved to New York City in 1958, two years after the Hungarian revolution, after crossing into Austria for safety, hidden in a horse-drawn cart.

[6] 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.

Her other books are Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry with James Ridgeway (1996), Signs & Relics (2000), Out of the Corner of My Eye (2008) and Goings On About Town: Photographs for The New Yorker (2007).