French photographer Brigitte Lacombe lives in New York City.

Her loves are portraits and travel.

Brigitte left school to be an apprentice at the black and white lab of Elle in Paris. In 1975, at the Cannes Film Festival, while on assignment for French Elle, she met Dustin Hoffman and Donald Sutherland. They each respectively invited her to the film sets of "Fellini's Casanova,” shot at Cinecitta, and Alan Pakula’s "All the President's Men," shot in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. 

She then worked on Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” shot in Mobile, Alabama.

In 1983, she worked on David Mamet’s original production of "Glengarry Glen Ross" at The Goodman Theater in Chicago, directed by Gregory Mosher.  Brigitte is still working on all of Mamet’s new productions. In 1985, Gregory Mosher came to New York City as the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater, and asked her to be the first and only staff photographer.  She remained at the LCT for 7 years.

Brigitte works on the films of Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Sam Mendes, Michael Haneke, David Mamet, Quentin Tarantino, and Spike Jonze. 

She contributes to many publications including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and GQ. She also has been a contributing photographer to Condé Nast Traveler since their first issue in 1986.

In 2000, she won the Eisenstaedt Award for Travel Photography.

In November 2010, Brigitte received the “Art Director’s Club” Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography.

Two monographs of Brigitte’s work have been published:

“Lacombe anima | persona,” a retrospective book of photographs from 1975-2008, published in 2009 by Steidldangin, with an essay by Frank Rich.

and

"Lacombe cinema | theater," published in 2001 by Schirmer/Mosel with essays by David Mamet and Adam Gopnik.

Brigitte is currently at work on a third book of personal photographs, to be published by Steidldangin in 2012.

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