Born in Paris in 1979, Jonathan Alpeyrie moved to the United States in 1993. He graduated from the Lycée Français de New York in 1998, and went on to study medieval history at the University of Chicago, from which he graduated in 2003. Alpeyrie started his career shooting for local Chicago newspapers during his undergraduate years. He shot his first photo essay in 2001 while traveling the South Caucasus. After graduating, he went to the Congo to work on various essays, which were noticed and picked up by Getty Images, and signed a contributor contract in early 2004. In 2009, Jonathan became a photographer for Polaris images and SIPA press as well.

By 2012, Alpeyrie went on his own as a freelancer for various international publications and websites, such as the Sunday Times, Le Figaro magazine, ELLE, American Photo, Glamour, Aftenposten, Le Monde, BBC, CNN, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg.

Alpeyrie's career spans over two decades, and has brought him to over 40 countries, covered 15 conflict zones assignments, in the Middle East and North Africa, the South Caucasus, Europe, North America and Central Asia. Two future photography books are currently in the works: One on WWII veterans, and the other on Drug wars.

Alpeyrie published a book with Simon and Schuster in October 2017 on his kidnapping in Syria.

Alpeyrie has been published in magazines such as: Paris Match, Aftenposten, Times (Europe), Newsweek, Wine Spectator, Boston Globe, Glamour, BBC, VSD, Le Monde, Newsweek, Popular Photography, Vanity Fair, La Stampa, CNN, and Bild Zeit, ELLE magazine, Der Speigel, Le Figaro, Marie Claire, The Guardian, Bild, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Financial Times

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