He got his first job in 1933 in the magazine VU and there he met and quickly became the assistant of Gaston Paris and joined the Universal press agency for which he produced his first reportage.
[2] From 1945 when Parisian night life recommenced, with cabaret, jazz, the music-hall and cinema, and creative artistic activity flourished in the 1950s, he worked as a freelance photojournalist for clients including Air France,[3] V: magazine illustré du Mouvement de libération nationale,[4] Aviation,[5] Icare,[6] His pin-ups and nudes were regularly published in the magazine Paris-Hollywood[7] and are predominant in Paris Sex-Appeal during its brief revival 1950-1, and his naked swimmers appeared in an international exhibition of photographs of women organised by Gens d'Images at the Musée d'Orsay in 1955 and were mentioned, amongst those of Emmanuel Sougez, Jacques Adriaan (U.S.A.), Honjo Mitsuro (Japan) and Mario Finazzi (Italy) in Combat; "One should not miss the underwater ballet of Serge de Sazo".
[8] While working on a project in 1950 about naturism on the island of Levant,[7] de Sazo met Jean-Albert Föex, previously author of La Fille perpendiculaire photographed by Robert Charroux.
Enthralled by the gracious movements of the weightless body and wanting to photograph it, he invented a waterproof casing for his Rolleiflex.
[9] After a few minor improvements he photographed a troop of dancers performing under water; “The Mermaids of Levant” was an immediate success.