Jonathan Alpeyrie was born in France in 1979, from a Spanish mother and a Russian father. Living in Paris, he decided to leave the old continent to join his father in the United States. Jon has been living in New York since July 1993, and went to school at the University of Chicago, where he studied medieval history.

   Jonathan started photographing international events in Panama, and has covered stories in the US, Western Europe, Chiapas, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Congo, Ivory Coast, Syria, Lebanon, Georgia, Ehtiopia, and Nepal.

   In the past two years he has been concentrating on conflict around the world, specifically focusing on the Caucasus. Jonathan first went to Armenia and worked on a photo essay about former Soviet heavy industrial cities in Armenia. He returned to the Caucasus in the spring 2004 to photograph the ethnic problems in the South Caucasus, through war and social problems. He covered the war in Karabakh for one month in may 2004, and photographed the life of local Karabastis. Jonathan returned to Georgia to cover the war in South Ossetia. After seeing some pretty heavy combat, he entered the Pankisi gorge to live and photograph the Chechen refugees. I have also covered the war in Southern Ethiopia with the OLF rebels, and planning in returning to Ethiopia to follow suit.

   Jonathan has shot for several publications including AFP, American Photo, Glamour (France), Wine spectator, Newsweek, and he is a contributor to Getty Images.