Andrzej Pluta was born in Poland in 1950 and has had 16 exhibitions of his photographs at the Stueben Gallery in New York City.

He left Poland in 1969 and lived in Rome, Italy and then immigrated to Canada in 1971, where he currently resides. Pluta's photographs were featured in Vol.19, No.2, Issue 74 of "Border Crossings" art magazine.

His unique work is often created by using Sinar P2 8x10 inch cameras. For some compositions, Carl Zeiss Mirotar lens (one of the world’s rarest) is used on the Sinar 8x10, making it the only camera construction of its kind. Using a unconventional and complex lighting technique, the full frame image is exposed on 8x10 Fujichrome film. There is no darkroom or computer manipulation and no retouching of the original color transparency which then yield a final archival-quality hand-printed Cibachrome print.

The term "Ciba" comes from Ciba-Geigy, a Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical company that developed the type of dyes used in this process. Also called "azo" dyes, these are the most brilliant and long-lasting colors available in a direct photographic print process. Unlike other color print processes, where the dyes are added during the paper processing, Cibachrome® paper is manufactured with the azo dyes impregnated in the paper itself. Unwanted dyes are bleached away during the paper processing (called "dye bleach reversal") rendering the final print extremely stable. The fact that the dyes are in the paper itself also means that when the exposure is made by the enlarger, there is virtually no "light scattering" which results in sharpness loss.

Pluta's Cibachrome® prints deliver exceptional color fidelity, sharpness and brilliance and are in many public and private collections around the world. He has married the brilliant colors delivered by the process with an elegant subject matter of wildflowers, cultivated flowers and other organic subject matter to deliver singularly beautiful prints.