Edouard Boubat, born in 1928 in Montmartre, Paris, was a French photographer known for his poetic depictions of nature, animals, and portraits after World War II. Having studied typography and graphic arts at École Estienne and worked at a printing house, he was influenced by the horrors of World War II when he was forced to perform compulsory labor for the Nazi regime in Germany in 1943. After the war, in 1946, he took his first photograph and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year.
Boubat became recognized for his humanistic and apolitical approach, which led the French poet Jacques Prévert to call him a "peace correspondent." He traveled the world as a photographer for the French magazine Réalités, where he collaborated with colleague Jean-Philippe Charbonnier. During his travels, Boubat documented, among other things, Hindu families in India, tree silhouettes in Africa, and children in Latin America.