Country: France 🇫🇷
Maria Semenova is a Franco-Russian documentary photographer based in Moscow. She graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2025, where she developed a strong foundation in visual storytelling and contemporary documentary practice.
Maria works as a freelance photographer for SIPA Agency and regularly collaborates with leading French-language media outlets, including Le Point, Le Temps, and La Presse. Her work focuses on current affairs and long-form documentary projects, with an emphasis on social, political, and humanitarian issues.
She has reported from several countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, and Georgia, producing news photographs and in-depth visual stories from complex and often sensitive environments. Through her assignments, Maria has covered major news events, humanitarian crises, natural disasters, conflict zones, and periods of social and political transformation, documenting the human impact of global events.
Maria works as a freelance photographer for SIPA Agency and regularly collaborates with leading French-language media outlets, including Le Point, Le Temps, and La Presse. Her work focuses on current affairs and long-form documentary projects, with an emphasis on social, political, and humanitarian issues.
She has reported from several countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, and Georgia, producing news photographs and in-depth visual stories from complex and often sensitive environments. Through her assignments, Maria has covered major news events, humanitarian crises, natural disasters, conflict zones, and periods of social and political transformation, documenting the human impact of global events.