# List of French women photographers

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## A

* Leila Alaoui (1982–2016), French-Moroccan commercial photographer and video artist

## B

* Martine Barrat (date of birth unknown), based in New York, has photographed the black inhabitants of Harlem since the early 1980s
* Claude Batho (1935–1981), remembered for the detailed images of her home and for her series on Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
* Valérie Belin (born 1964), whose photographs have played with the distinction between illusion and reality
* Denise Bellon (1902–1999), associated with the Surrealist movement
* Marie-Lydie Cabanis Bonfils (1837–1918), photographer active in the Middle East and co-founder of Maison Bonfils photography studio in Beirut
* Marguerite Bornhauser (born 1989), visual artist and photographer
* Alexandra Boulat (1962–2007), photojournalist and co-founder of the VII Photo Agency
* Adeline Boutain (1862–1946), photographer, postcard publisher

## C

* Claude Cahun (1894–1954), photographer and artist, remembered for her self-portraits (1927–1947)
* Sophie Calle (born 1953), writer, photographer and installation artist, also photography professor
* Georgette Chadourne (1899–1983), surrealist photographer
* Vivienne Chandler (1947–2013), actress and professional photographer
* Yvonne Chevalier (1899–1982), magazine photographer

## D

* Dominique Darbois (1925–2014), photojournalist who has concentrated on the victims of European colonialism
* Sophie Delaporte (born 1971), fashion photographer
* Françoise Demulder (1947–2008), war photographer
* Stéphanie Di Giusto (active since 2004), film director, photographer, art director
* Delphine Diallo (born 1977), French-Senegalese art photographer
* Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri (c. 1817–1878), early photographer, wife of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
* Suzanne Doppelt (born 1956), writer, photographer and educator
* Claudine Doury (born 1959), photojournalist

## F

* Flore (born 1963), French-Spanish artistic photographer
* Gisèle Freund (1908–2000), German-born, known for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists

## G

* Gaëlle Ghesquière (born 1972), photographer, writer, journalist, portraits of pop artists
* Laure Mathilde Gouin (1829-1916), painter and photographer, colourist for photographers Alexis Gouin and Bruno Braquehais, from 1874 worked independently under the name of Mme. M. Gouin.
* Laure Albin Guillot (1879–1962), portraits of Paris celebrities, wide variety of other genres, several high-ranking administrative positions

## H

* Genevieve Hafner (fl 2003), street photographer based in New York
* Florence Henri (1893–1982), surrealist
* Françoise Huguier (born 1942), travel photographer

## I

* Irina Ionesco (born 1930), erotic images of lavishly dressed women posing provocatively
* Dominique Issermann (born 1947), portrait and fashion photographer

## J

* Valérie Jouve (born 1964), photographer, filmmaker

## K

* Germaine Krull (1897–1985), photographically-illustrated books, photojournalism
* Bénédicte Kurzen (born 1980), photographer and photojournalist based in Nigeria
* Anouk Masson Krantz, photographer, living in the United States

## L

* Brigitte Lacombe (born 1950), photographer of film sets
* Louise Laffon (1828–1885), early photographer with a studio in Paris from 1859
* Suzanne Lafont (born 1949), art photographer
* Camille Lepage (1988–2014), photojournalist
* Catherine Leroy (1945–2006), photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the Vietnam war
* Natacha Lesueur (born 1971), photographer and plasticist
* Ariane Lopez-Huici (born 1945), art photographer

## M

* Benedicte Van der Maar (born 1968), art photography, human photography
* Dora Maar (1907–1997), both a commercial and a street photographer in the 1920s and 30s
* Mayotte Magnus (born 1934), French-born photographer based in England
* Dolorès Marat (born 1944), art photography
* Alix Marie (born 1989), artist working with photography and sculpture
* Isabelle Massieu (1844–1932), travel writer and photographer
* Sarah Moon (born 1941), fashion photographer, now concentrating on gallery work

## N

* Anaïs Napoleón (1827–1912), pioneering French-Spanish photographer
* Janine Niépce (1921–2007), prolific photojournalist
* Françoise Nuñez (1957–2021), travel photographer

## P

* Sabine Pigalle (born 1963), travel photographer
* Kate Polin (born 1967), art photographer

## R

* Ann Ray (born 1969), artist and photographer
* Bettina Rheims (born 1952), strip-tease artists and acrobats, stuffed animals, also advertising, and photography of nude women making her a best-seller
* Sophie Ristelhueber (born 1949), who has photographed the effects of war on landscape
* Emmanuelle Riva (1927–2017), primarily an actor but also a noted and published photographer

## S

* Lise Sarfati (born 1958), images of listless young people in Russia and the United States
* Christine Spengler (born 1945), photojournalist who has concentrated on the victims of war

## T

* Yvette Troispoux (1914–2007), remembered for photographing people at social events

## V

* Agnès Varda (1928–2019), film director and photographer, documentary realism, feminist issues
* Jenny de Vasson (1872–1920), highly productive early female photographer
* Madame Vaudé-Green (1822-1902), nineteenth century French photographer of religious art
* Véronique de Viguerie (born 1978), photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the most recent Afghan war