Born in Paris in 1897, Zucca worked for both French and foreign publications in the 1930s, and covered the Russian–Finnish War in the winter of 1939–1940 for Paris-Soir, before becoming a photographer for Signal from 1941 to 1944.
After the liberation he was arrested but never prosecuted, and spent the remainder of his career as a wedding and portrait photographer in a small town in the west of Paris. He died in 1973.