Phoumi Vongvichit

Bernard Plossu (born the February 26th 1945 with Dalat, south of the Vietnam) is a Photographe French. Most of its work makes up of reports of voyages.

Biography

Of 1951 with 1962, it studies with Paris. It begins photography very early: in 1958, it travels to the the Sahara with his/her father, provided with a Kodak Brownie Flash, and in 1965, share for the Mexico within the framework of an English forwarding to photograph the jungle of the Chiapas.

Follow of many reports colors at the Indiens Mayas, in California, in the Western American, the Nevada, the Midwest.

In 1970, it completes a work on the India, where is born the idea from sequences “surbanalists”: banal sequences which are in fact surrealist.

It continues to travel enormously, carrying out many reports colors, and in 1975, share for its first voyage to the Niger. Consequently, it makes nothing any more but photographs black and white taken with a focal of 50 mm to place itself in margin of commercial photography.

In 1978 is born his/her Shane son, whom it photographs also regularly. In 1983, it starts to paint and work with the Fotowest agency.

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