Le Querrec took his first photographs as a teenager using a basic
Fex/Indo Ultra-Fex, buying second hand soon after another and more sophisticated bakelite 6 x 9 cm Photax
viewfinder camera, in 1955. He shot his first pictures of
jazz musicians in
London in the late 1950s. After having served in the army, he became a professional in 1967, and then worked as a picture editor and photographer for
Jeune Afrique magazine, working in
francophone Africa, including
Chad,
Cameroon,
Niger, and
Central African Republic. In 1971 he gave his archives to
Agence Vu, founded by
Pierre de Fenoyl and then co-founded
Viva (photo agency), with
Martine Franck, Hervé Gloaguen, and others. In 1976, he joined
Magnum Photos. In the late 1970s he began directing films, working with
Robert Bober. In 1983 at the
Rencontres d'Arles he experimented with projecting images while a jazz quartet played. Besides having photographed numerous jazz festivals and African subjects, Le Querrec has traveled to
China and documented
American Indians. He has documented
Villejuif, a suburb of
Paris, as well as the
Carnation Revolution in
Portugal. He has also taught many photography workshops in France. ==Filmography==