As a teenager, she attended the Lycée Français de New York and the French boarding school l'Institut Saint Dominique.

Fougeron's primary fine art photography project since 2005 has been her series Nicolas et Adrien – A World with Two Sons, which consists of two collections: "Teen Tribe" (2005–2010) and "The Twenties" (2010–2018).

Critic Vince Aletti commented in a New Yorker article:  Fougeron's pictures of Adrien or Nicolas sleeping or lounging about in Greenwich Village and the South of France have a lovely looseness and spontaneity, but they never feel like snapshots.

[28] Cory Jacobs, curator of the Gallery at Hermès in New York City, noted on Artsy.net:The gaze is telling in these pictures.

[29] Images from this series have been featured in solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia as well as France, Korea, China, and Switzerland.

Chris Allnutt in FT Week End commented on the book in January 2020:"In 2005, French-American photographer Martine Fougeron began taking pictures of her two sons (then aged 14 and 15) in New York.

The result is Nicolas & Adrien, a collection of 159 intimate prints taken over the course of more than a decade ... An evolving cast of friends, girlfriends and pets picks up the slack, offering an enchanting and bohemian backdrop to the coming of age story created by the photographs.

Her compelling portraits focus on the working people; her striking landscapes place the project geographically; her environmental pictures are both informative and reflective; and her close-ups are simply beautiful abstractions.