Germaine Van Parys

[1] She left an extensive collection covering the people and places she photographed from 1918 to 1968, documenting key events in the country's history.

[citation needed] In 1926, she was a founding member of the "Association des reporters photographes de presse".

[citation needed] She first worked for Le Soir (1922), then for La Meuse (1932), also contributing to the Paris weekly L'Illustration.

[citation needed] In addition to images of royalty, she covered national catastrophes, plane crashes and assassinations.

She was one of the few women photographers to be a correspondent during the Second World War, also covering the Belgian liberation.