When Plotnick was a young boy, his artist mother painted mannequin faces, and his father was an amateur photographer who taught him to develop film and print photographs in the basement of their home. He has been making images ever since.
Influenced by the Bauhaus, Constructivist and Surrealist photographers of the 1920s and 30s, Plotnick works with a hybrid of wet photography and digital process. His captivating photo-based constructions have been exhibited widely domestically and abroad, and are in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and numerous private collections.
