Claude-Max Lochu is a French artist, painter and designer.
Jacques Réattu was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal – Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting.
Katerina Jebb is a British-born artist, photographer and film-maker.
Guy Hersant is a French photographer.
Michel Poivert is a professor of the history of contemporary art and photography at the Sorbonne. He has taken a special interest in pictorialism, the subject of his doctorate thesis. From 1995 to 2010, he was president of Société française de photographie, the French Photography Society. In 2018, he founded the International College of Photography (CIP). In 2020, he was awarded Officier des Arts et des Lettres.
Lucien Lorelle was a French portraitist, publicist, humanist photographer, author, painter, a member of Le Groupe des XV and founder of the photography company Central Color.
Jean-Francois Campos is a French photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and museums, such as the International Center of Photography in New York as well as the Centre national de la photographie in Paris. After an esteemed career as an Agence Vu photojournalist, beginning in Berlin during the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a long term collaboration with the French daily newspaper Libération, Jean-Francois Campos turned to fashion and portrait photography in 2006. Jean-Francois has since created numerous award-winning campaigns for clients such as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Shiseido, Celine, Van Cleef & Arpels, and LVMH; and has directed commercials for the likes of Secours Populaire, Mobalpa, and Links of London. Jean-François has collaborated to many international publications such as ELLE Magazine, Town & Country Magazine, Le Monde, and V Magazine.
Olivier Meyer is a French photographer born in 1957. He lives and works in Paris, France.
Jan Kopp is a German visual artist. He has lived in France since 1991.
Clark and Pougnaud are a French artistic duo, made up of photographer Christophe Clark, born in Paris on 29 October 1963, and painter Virginie Pougnaud, born in Angoulême on 18 November 1962.
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was a French writer, poet, art critic and collector.
Kim Timby is a photography historian based in Paris who teaches at the École du Louvre and works as a curator for a private collection specialising in international nineteenth-century photography. From her research and teaching, Timby writes on the cultural history of photography as a technology.
Quentin Bajac is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography. He is the director of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
Didier Ben Loulou, is a Franco-Israeli photographer.
Léon Herschtritt was a French humanist photographer. He won the Niépce Prize as a young photographer in 1960.
Jean-Claude Lemagny was a French library curator and historian of photography; a specialist in contemporary photography, he contributed to the world of fine-art photography in several roles.
Hom Nguyen is a French painter of Vietnamese origin. His works are mostly portraits in a figurative style. He lives and works in Paris.
Étienne Bertrand Weill (1919-2001) was a French photographer. His primary works were abstract Metaforms.
Louise Leghait, also known as Louise Le Ghait, was a Belgian photographer active during the 1850s in Brussels and Paris. She is considered to be the first Belgian woman who worked as an amateur photographer.
Crimes de la Commune is a series of photomontages produced by French photographer Ernest-Charles Appert at the end of the Paris Commune. A Parisian photographer accredited to the Tribunal de la Seine, and sometimes cited as the forerunner of bertillonage, he photographed Communards incarcerated in Versailles and used these portraits in photomontages. This practice of committed photomontage is the subject of much debate. Furthermore, these photographs raise issues of both commercial practice and copyright.
