List of French women photographers

B

• Martine Barrat, based in New York, has photographed the black inhabitants of Harlem since the early 1980s
• Claude Batho, remembered for the detailed images of her home and for her series on Claude Monet's garden at Giverny
• Valérie Belin, whose photographs have played with the distinction between illusion and reality
• Alexandra Boulat, photojournalist and co-founder of the VII Photo Agency
• Adeline Boutain, photographer, postcard publisher

  C

• Claude Cahun, photographer and artist, remembered for her self-portraits
• Sophie Calle, writer, photographer and installation artist, also photography professor

  D

• Dominique Darbois, photojournalist who has concentrated on the victims of European colonialism
• Françoise Demulder, war photographer
• Stéphanie Di Giusto, film director, photographer, art director
• Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri, early photographer, wife of André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
• Claudine Doury, photojournalist

  F

• Gisèle Freund, German-born, known for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists

  G

• Gaëlle Ghesquière, photographer, writer, journalist, portraits of pop artists
• Laure Albin Guillot, portraits of Paris celebrities, wide variety of other genres, several high-ranking administrative positions

  H

• Florence Henri, surrealist

  I

• Irina Ionesco, erotic images of lavishly dressed women posing provocatively

  K

• Germaine Krull, photographically-illustrated books, photojournalism

  L

• Brigitte Lacombe, photographer of film sets
• Louise Laffon, early photographer
• Suzanne Lafont
• Ergy Landau, see Hungary
• Catherine Leroy, photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the Vietnam war

  M

• Benedicte Van der Maar, art photography, human photography
• Dora Maar, both a commercial and a street photographer in the 1920s and 30s
• Sarah Moon, fashion photographer, now concentrating on gallery work

  N

• Janine Niépce, prolific photojournalist

  R

• Bettina Rheims, strip-tease artists and acrobats, stuffed animals, also advertising, and photography of nude women making her a best-seller
• Sophie Ristelhueber, who has photographed the effects of war on landscape
• Emmanuelle Riva, primarily an actor but also a noted and published photographer

  S

• Lise Sarfati, images of listless young people in Russia and the United States
• Stéphane Sednaoui, reportages, portraits, fashion
• Christine Spengler, photojournalist who has concentrated on the victims of war

  T

• Yvette Troispoux, remembered for photographing people at social events

  V

• Agnès Varda, film director and photographer, documentary realism, feminist issues
• Véronique de Viguerie, photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the most recent Afghan war