Marie-Laure de Decker

Besides war photography, de Decker was a highly regarded portrait photographer, known for her depictions of prominent French figures.

In her work, she met photographer Dominique Merlin and saw the footage that he captured for The Anderson Platoon, a documentary about the Vietnam War.

She enjoyed working with the Wodaabe as they were one of the few groups who were not involved in the military conflict, and she wished to preserve their culture through photography as their population declined.

After her work with Gamma, she became involved in a legal dispute to retain the rights to the photographs she took for the agency, which she ultimately lost.

Celebrities who have become subjects of her photographs include visual artists such as Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, writers such as Philippe Soupault, actors such as Catherine Deneuve and Charlotte Rampling, musicians such as Serge Gainsbourg, and political figures such as Princess Caroline of Monaco and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.