Brigitte Lacombe (born December 23, 1950, in Alès, France) is an American photographer based in New York City.
[1] Lacombe is famous for her raw techniques for shooting her portraits: “The situation I create is devoid of production values… I try to make it as bare as possible so it’s about them as them.
[3] At age seventeen, Lacombe left school to pursue photography as an apprentice with the black and white lab for Elle in Paris.
Lacombe started working at the black and white lab of Elle in Paris when she left school.
She worked on the movies of Sam Mendes, David Mamet, Martin Scorsese, and others.