Commercial Expertise

Since 1985, Jean-Philippe has owned and operated a private studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he has worked with advertising agencies, hospitals, engineering firms, construction companies, and modeling agencies, frequently winning ADDY Awards for commercial photography.

International Style

Jean-Philippe's work has been featured internationally in magazines such as Vogue and Rolling Stone. And in the southern United States, his work has toured in various photographic exhibits, including "Highway 61: Faces of the Delta, Voices of the South", which is on permanent display at the Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Human Interest

Jean-Philippe has a notable reputation for creating powerful black and white portraits. He has photographed for album covers, promotional posters, billboards, human service agencies, and books, including one he co-produced with writer Randall Norris for the University Press of Kentucky, entitled Women of Coal. The book contains stark black and white photography alongside one-page essays that depict the lives of women native to the coal mining regions of southern Appalachia. For more information about the book, please click here.

NEW BOOK!

"Highway 61: Heart of the Delta celebrates the Mississippi Delta in words and pictures. Edited by Randall Norris with photographs by award-winning photographer Jean-Philippe Cyprès, this volume brings to life this storied region of the South. Actor Morgan Freeman provides a Foreword in which he recounts his personal history as a child in the Delta and discusses why he was pulled back to his ancestral home, despite its challenges." Click here for the UT Press website about the book!