Born in Paris in 1947, Françoise Demulder is one of the most famous women photojournalists of the late twentieth century, who worked for many years with the major press agencies. She got her start covering the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon in 1975, and then traveled the world’s trouble spots, conflict after conflict: Angola, Lebanon, Cambodia, Ethiopia… She also covered the first Gulf War in 1991, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her photograph of the Camp de la Quarantaine, taken in Beirut in January 1976, won her the World Press Photo in 1977, making her the first woman to win the award. Françoise Demulder died in Paris in September 2008.
Since 2010, the Roger-Viollet agency (represented by Topfoto) has been distributing her photographs exclusively.