Inside Pakistan's Islamic schools
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
The Sartorialist Scott Schuman
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Inside Pakistan's Islamic schools
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Inside Pakistan's Islamic schools
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
The Sartorialist Scott Schuman
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Credit: Jonathan Alpeyrie / Polaris
Jonathan Alpeyrie
Jonathan Alpeyrie was born in France and has been living in New York since July 1993.His photography career started in 1996 when he decided to photograph ancient Roman sites all around the Mediterranean Sea, then traveled to various sites in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. He photographed the civil unrest in Panama in the summer of 2000 and from then on started covering stories in the US, Western Europe, Chiapas, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Congo, Ivory Coast, Syria, Lebanon, Georgia, Nepal, and Ethiopia.
In the past three years he has been concentrating on conflicts around the world, more specifically on the South Caucasus and in East Africa. His first major photo essay took place in the South Caucasus in April 2001. He then traveled to Armenia to document on Ex. Soviet heavy industrial cities and returned to South Caucasus in 2004 to photograph the ethnic problems through war and social tensions. He covered various wars in Karabakh, in the Ivory Coast with the French Foreign legion, in South Ossetia and documented on Chechen refugees living in the Pankisi gorge.
In 2005 he covered the war in Nepal, working with the Maoist rebels then with the Royal Nepalese army, as well as working on a human trafficking story. After covering the war in Congo and Ivory Coast in 2004, he decided to focus on Ethiopia and its military unrest, with Oromo rebels in early 2006 and the ONLF in October of the same year.
In 2008 he was in Beijing covering the life and hardships of Chinese migrant workers, then the war in Georgia on the Russian side. His work has appeared in publications such as Times (Europe), American Photo, The Traveler UK, Need magazine (US), Africa International, Le Figaro Madame, Glamour in France and Spain, Aftenposten in Norway as well as a dozen Western European magazines.
He won two fourth places for Black and White in the University of
Chicago/National Geographic magazine photo contest; and Best War Photo
of the Year in American Photo magazine. He is about to publish a book
on a project he has been working on for 5 years about WWII veterans
from all over the world.