Françoise Demulder (9 June 1947 – 3 September 2008)[1] was a French war photographer who in 1977 became the first woman to win the World Press Photo of the Year award.

The winning image was a black and white photo of a Palestinian woman raising her hands at a masked militiaman in Beirut's war-ravaged La Quarantaine district.

After covering the Vietnam War for three years, the self-made adventurer traveled to other places of crisis in the world including Angola, Lebanon, Cambodia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Cuba.

The first captures a symbolic instance where a North Vietnam tank smashes the gate at the Independence Palace in Saigon, during the taking of the city on 30 April 1975.

The sale was organized by Gallery Vu' of Paris, and reported a sum of €171,000 destined to come to the aid of a French photojournalist who was very sick and without social security.