Career
He photographed scenes and people in Turkey and Egypt including Nubians. He partnered with photographer Policarpe Joaillier. In 1893, Sultan Abdulhamid II sponsored fifty-one photographic albums representing the span of the Ottoman Empire with two of the volumes produced by Sebah & Joaillier.
United States. President Grover Cleveland was one of the recipients of the photo collection and it is now in the Library of Congress.
The "Foto Sabah" studio in Beyoğlu, Constantinople was the most prestigious photography studio in the city for many decades during the 19th and 20th centuries. The photographs depicted sites such as the Hagia Sofia, the Blue Mosque, the Galata Tower.
Jean died on 6 June 1947, at the age of 75.