Hugues Krafft (1853 - 1935) was a French photographer born in Paris. He travelled around the world, and visited Japan in 1882-1883. He left numerous quality photographs of the period.

He was among the first to use intantaneous photography in Japan (he used a Zeiss camera with gelatine-silver bromide plates, a process which became widely available in 1880), which allowed him to take vivid pictures in an open environment, in contrast to the many staged studio photographs made by his predecessors.