Farzana Wahidy is an award-winning Afghan documentary photographer best known for her photographs of Afghan women and girls. She was the first Afghan female photographer to work with international media agencies. Wahidy has been documenting the lives of Afghan women living inside and outside Afghanistan for more than two decades.

Wahidy attended public school during the Afghan civil war, and after the Taliban took power in 1996 she attended an underground school. After their defeat in December 2001, Wahidy enrolled in a two-year program with AINA Photojournalism Institute. In 2004 she began working as a photographer for Agence-France Presse and later joined the Associated Press. In 2009 Wahidy graduated from the Photojournalism program at Loyalist College in Canada.

Wahidy's work has been widely published in international magazines and newspapers, and she has done assignments for numerous NGOs. In 2014 she created a project to train Afghan photographers, to review copyright law, and to research the history of photography in Afghanistan. In 2016 Wahidy established the Afghanistan Photographers Association.

Wahidy's photographs have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Afghanistan, Canada, United States, China, India, Pakistan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Norway and Finland.

Wahidy is a Fellow at the Academy in Exile at Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany. She taught photography as a visiting faculty member at Bennington College in the U.S. in 2022 and is pursuing her Master in Fine Arts in Public Action at Bennington College.