The eyes of the sea

« Like Picasso, who was the first to paint the painting rather than his models, when you think that Philip Plisson is talking about a spinnaker split into pieces, a buoy lying down by the current, or the unending history of a foam wake close to the wind, he is actuallly only talking about his art, made of true lies. Thank you Mr Plisson, for having written in images the text about the sea, that no writer was able to raise as higher as the model, vast, breathless, crystal-clear piece of sky ».
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
Member of the French Academy

Born in January 1947, Philip was raised along the banks of the Loire River in the Beauce and Sologne regions. His familiy discovered the city of La Trinité-sur-Mer on the southern coast of Brittany shortly after.
Paul Plisson, Philip's father, was the founder and President of the Saling Club 'Cercle de la Voile' created in 1957 in Orleans, in the heart of the Sologne region. Philip learned to sail at the age of seven aboard a 'Moth' before switching over to other dinghies. Mousses, 420 and 505 were a true passion for him.

But it was most likely his grandmother who initiated Philip to photography when she offered him a camera, an Ultra-fex, for his First Communion. In the summer of 1956, aboard his Punt in the La Trinité River, this young man began taking his first shots of yachts. However, Philip didn't put out to sea immediatly. He first became photographer on terra firma...