Born in 1945 in Dalat, South Vietnam. He is a widely-acclaimed French photographer and a teacher. He thought of becoming a professional photographer, when he photographed with his father in the Sahara Desert, at the age of 13. He studied philosophy at University of Paris between 1961-62. In 1965 he completed his education at the American University, Mexico City and began photographing professionally.
In 1966, at the age of 20, Plossu joined a two-year ethnological expedition to Chiapas, Mexico, for press coverage. He has been travelling constantly ever since, mostly in France and Africa. In 1970, he travelled to India and started the series titled “Surbanalisme” to show that surrealism exists even in the most obsolete or insipid things. The second year he returned to Mexico and in 1972 he published the album “Surbanalisme”.
The most typical and representative sample of his work are the series “New Mexico Revisited”, “Garden of Dust” and “The African Desert”. Ever since his first exhibition, “The Ghost West”, in Paris and London in 1973, every year he has exhibitions in Paris and all over the world. In 1988 his retrospective exhibition was held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. From 2002 and on he has realized numerous photographic concepts, concentrated mostly on Europe, the Mediterranean and the area of Marseille.
His photo books are part of the collections in Art Net, Creative Photography, Photoeye bookstore and some University libraries.
He lives permanently in France.
