Guy Le Querrec's political view of society and his background in jazz have informed much of his photography. Born into a modest family from Brittany in 1941, Le Querrec took his first pictures as a teenager with an Ultrafex 4.5x6. In the late 1950s he focused on jazz musicians in London, and in the following decade Le Querrec completed his first reportages in Francophone Africa. Le Querrec joined Magnum in 1976.