Name Fouad Elkoury | Role Photographer | |
 | ||
Awards World Press Photo Award for General News | ||
Integrale moe adila bendimerad jean dytar fouad elkoury
Fouad Elkoury (Arabic: فؤاد الخوري) (born in 1952 in Paris, France) is a Lebanese photographer and filmmaker. Son of Lebanese architect Pierre el-Khoury, he studied architecture in London before switching to photography. His photographic images of war in Lebanon gained Elkoury international recognition for his work.
Contents
- Integrale moe adila bendimerad jean dytar fouad elkoury
- Words on Works Fouad Elkoury
- Work
- Filmography
- Publications
- Awards
- References
Words on Works: Fouad Elkoury
Work
Fouad ElKoury began his photographic career producing images of daily life during the Lebanese Civil War. He documented the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and found himself on the Atlantis, the ship aboard of which Yasser Arafat had been evacuated, producing an unexpected nautical photo essay.
In 1989, he joined Rapho agency and spent one year in Egypt. In 1991, he was part of a collective photographic project in charge of capturing an ultimate image of Beirut city center's ruins, with Robert Frank, Raymond Depardon, René Burri, Josef Koudelka and Gabriele Basilico.
He was one of the co founders of the Arab Image Foundation a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect, preserve and study photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora.
In 2002, he was commissioned to produce a new body of work to be exhibited at the Maison européenne de la photographie as Sombres.
Elkoury represented Lebanon in the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 with the series "On War and Love", 2006.
In 2011, he presented Be…longing, a comprehensive solo exhibition at the Beirut Art Center. Elkoury participated in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, which took place September 7 – November 11, 2012 in Gwangju, Korea.