Françoise Demulder

Françoise Demulder was born on 9 June 1947 in Paris, France. She died on 3 September 2008 in Levallois-Perret, France, of a heart attack, at age 61. She was the first woman to win the World Press Photo of the Year award (1977), for her photograph of the Karantina massacre in Beirut. Her work spanned Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Angola, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Cuba, Iraq, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the siege of Sarajevo. A witness who never looked away. War photographer, Gamma and Sipa Press, 1970s–1990s. World Press Photo of the Year, 1977. Her photographs of besieged Sarajevo and Vukovar remain part of the visual record of the Bosnian war. Honored today through the Françoise Demulder Photography Grants, established 2020 by the French Ministry of Culture and Visa pour l'Image.