Serge de Sazo

Serge Sazonoff (October 8, 1915 – January 24, 2012), also known as Serge de Sazo, was a Russian born French photographer.
Biography.
Serge de Sazo was born at Stavropol (in the province of Don). His father was a colonel in the Cossacks and his mother was the daughter of an industrialist. After living with his family in Turkey, Greece and the United States, he arrived in Paris in 1922 at the age of seven.
He got his first job in 1933 in the magazine VU and there he met and quickly became the assistant of Gaston Paris.
Having retired to the French Alps in the mid 1980s, de Sazo died on 24 January 2012.