Born in Paris in 1947, Françoise Demulder is one of the most famous women photojournalists of the end of the 20th century, a long time collaborator of the biggest press agencies. She began her career by photographing the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon in 1975, then travelled the world's crisis areas, conflict after conflict: Angola, Lebanon, Cambodia, Ethiopia... She also did reports on the first Gulf War in 1991, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With her photograph of the Quarantine Camp taken in Beirut in January 1976 she was the first woman to win the World Press Photo award in 1977. Françoise Demulder died in Paris in September 2008.