Initially it was managed by his uncle, Cosmi (his father's brother), and in 1888 Pollicarpe Joaillier became a partner.
At this time the company was renamed Sebah & Joaillier[1] Jean Pascal Sébah, also joined in 1888 and went on to run the studio with other photographers.
[2] 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.
U.S. President Grover Cleveland was one of the recipients of the photo collection and it is now in the Library of Congress in the USA.
Their photographs depicted sites such as the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Galata Tower.