Photographer Sylvia Plachy will be on campus for a slide lecture and book signing on Wednesday, April 12 at noon in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. This event is sponsored by the Art Department. For information contact Professor Phyllis Galembo at 442-4020.

Plachy is staff photographer at THE VILLAGE VOICE, a weekly newspaper in New York city. Her book, Uniguided Tour won ICP' s Infinity Award for best publication of 199O and has a record by Tom Waits in it. Her other book Red Light, a collaboration with writer James Ridgeway, is about the sex industry and was published in 1996. Her new book, Sign & Relics, published in 2000, includes a foreword by Wim Wenders.

Sylvia holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is a Guggenheim fellow, and has receiced an Arts Achievement Award from the Queens Museum, CAPS from New York State, a Page One Award and an MTA Arts for Transit Award .

Credits include, DANCE INK, NEWSWEEK, ART FORUM, LIFE, GRANTA, GRAND STREET, EW, PREMIERE, THE NEW YORKER, NEW YORK, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, THE WASHINGTON P0ST MAGAtINE, REDBOOK, PARENTING, DOUBLETAKE, KATAL0G, WIRED, TRAVEL HOLIDAY and others.

Sylvia has given lectures, panels, workshops at Anderson Ranch, ICP, NYU, Friends of Photography, Empire State College, University of Memphis, Glassel School of Art, New York Public Library, the Corcoran, Woodstock and OCC in Denver .

Her work is in many private collections and in those of George Eastman House, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale.

Solo exhibits have been held in Penn Station, The Palladium, The Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, and in galleries in New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Perpignan, Arles, Manchester, Esztergom, Vancouver, Atlanta, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Budapest.

Important group exhibits have included A History of Women Photographers, Mirrors and Windows, Mexico through Foreign Eyes, Made in Hungary: Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed Behind and Hope.

She took part in two Millenhium projects. THE NATIONAL MILLENNIUM SURVEY, in conjunction with the College of Santa Fe and INDIVISIBLE, with the University of Arizona and Duke University'

Born in Budapest, she left with her parents after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and immigrated to the United States in 1958, She lives in Queens with her husband. They have one son.