25 July 1904 – 4 December 1995, was a French photographer and photojournalist active from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Born in Nancy, he moved with his family to Paris in 1911, where his father worked as a school photographer. After military service in the mid-1920s, including work in a photographic section in Lebanon, he returned to Paris and began pursuing photography professionally.

In 1929 he purchased a Leica camera and began photographing the streets of Paris. In 1931 he opened a studio in Montmartre with his brother Raymond, which later operated as the Schall Presse agency and distributed images to numerous magazines including Vu, Vogue Paris, L’Illustration, Life, and Paris Match. His work ranged across reportage, fashion photography, portraits, and urban scenes, and his photographs appeared widely in international publications.

During the Second World War he secretly documented the German occupation of Paris. His photographs later appeared in the book À Paris sous la botte des Nazis (1944), a visual record of the occupation created together with other photographers. After the war he expanded into advertising photography for companies including Guerlain, Nina Ricci, and Christofle.

In 1967 he transferred management of the studio to his son Jean-Frédéric Schall and focused on organizing his photographic archive, which eventually comprised more than 80,000 images.

Reference
Biography text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), English edition. Retrieved March 11, 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Schall