Snapshot: 'Bernard Plossu', La Fabrica, Madrid

Snapshot: 'Bernard Plossu'

French photographer Bernard Plossu likes to get around. Born in Vietnam in 1945, he grew up in Paris and took his first photograph as a teenager while on a family trip in the African desert. Aged 20, he left France to live with relatives in Mexico, and then spent the next 10 years travelling around the world, taking pictures throughout Europe, Africa, North and Central America and India, before settling in New Mexico for a few years and returning to Paris in 1985.

The first photo above, previously unpublished, was taken in Los Angeles in the 1970s on a road trip across America. Plossu captured everyday scenes and everyday people - from surfers in Los Angeles and picnics in the Midwest to the cold cityscapes of New York. Twenty-five photographs from this trip, together with 15 more from other journeys, are on display at a solo exhibition of his work in Madrid.

Plossu likes taking pictures with both colour and black-and-white film and has said that he is led by a "mysterious feeling" when deciding which to shoot with. "I especially like colour when the weather is bad or raining because the colours mix so well with the grey tones of the sky."

'Bernard Plossu' is at La Fabrica gallery, Madrid, until May 31; lafabrica.com

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