Ahmet Sel (born in Turkey in 1956) is a documentary and portrait photographer. He lived in Paris from 1981 to 1990, where he worked for the French television channel La Cinq. From 1990 to 2000, he was based in Moscow as a correspondent and bureau chief for Sipa Press. After his time in Moscow, he continued his career at Sipa Press in Paris until 2005.
From 2012 to 2019, Sel worked as Director of Visual News at Anadolu Agency in Ankara. He currently works as editor-in-chief at SPF Agence in Strasbourg.

His photographs have appeared in major international newspapers and magazines, including Le Monde, Stern, Paris Match, VSD, Le Figaro Magazine, L’Express, The Walrus, Corriere della Sera, Sette and Noticias, among others. His published photobooks include Gens de Moscou (Catleya Editions, Paris, 2001), Kaboul, portraits posés (Éditions Horizon Illimité, Paris, 2003) and Davutpaşa Orta 3 (Aras Yayıncılık, Istanbul, 2012).

Sel has served on the juries of numerous national and international photography competitions. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries and is held in public and private collections.
His awards include the Fujifilm Press Photo Award France in the portrait category in 2003; the Gold Award from Canada’s National Magazine Awards Foundation in the Words & Pictures category in 2004; the Turkish Federation of Photographic Art (TFSF) Award in 2021; first prize in the Portrait category at the Sarajevo Photography Festival in 2022; and first place and Gold in the Professional category at the Exposure One Awards’ 2026 One Shot Photo Contest.