Sylvia Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was smuggled out in 1956 after the collapse of the Hungarian revolution. Settling in New York in 1958, she began photographing in 1964 and over the next forty years established herself as a preeminent photojournalist. Her work sensitively portrays the emotional complexity of her subjects, empathetically capturing their inner experiences through the expressivity of their faces and gestures. As her close friend, mentor, and fellow photographer André Kertész commented, “I have never seen the moment sensed and caught on film with more intimacy and humanity.”