Fernando Paillet (27 October 1880 – 3 November 1967), was an Argentine photographer who portrayed the colonisation and life of the settlers in Esperanza, an agricultural colony founded in 1856 in Santa Fe Province (Argentina).

[2] Named Fernando Basilio Paillet, he was son of Clotilde Insinger, granddaughter of Peter Zimmerman, the first colony that died in Esperanza.

Paillet started with photography at a very early age, becoming an employee of the Lutser studio of Santa Fe in 1898.

He a wide range of people such as majors, police chiefs, judges, ladies of charity and other anonymous personalities.

Bucolic, gallant, laborious, agricultural, metallurgic scenes; all of them take us to lost tabernacles where the history of the Argentine colonization lays today.