Christine Spengler

She worked freelance as a photographer for Sipa-Press, Corbis-Sygma, and AP, while she documented wars in Chad, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Western Sahara, Kurdistan, Nicaragua, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, among others.

While travelling through Chad during the Toubou Wars, Spengler borrowed her brother's camera and photographed soldiers headed into battle.

For taking the picture, Spengler and her brother were arrested and held for 23 days in prison on speculation they were spies or journalists.

[4] Later, Spengler worked with Sipa Press on an assignment in Bangladesh to photograph a Pakistan leader returning home after nine years as a captive.

[6] Spengler was also able to begin working in the fashion world when Maria Grazia Chuiri, Dior's first female creative director, asked her to shoot the AW18 collection.