Fouad Elkoury

Title: Untitled
Medium: Photography
Date: 1985
Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
Edition: Signed but not numbered

Artwork courtesy of the artist

Starting Bid: $1000

Biography:
Fouad Elkoury was born in 1952 in Paris of Lebanese parents. After taking his degree in architecture in London in 1979, he turned to photography, producing a report on daily life in war-torn Lebanon and published in 1984 in Paris by Editions de l’Etoile as Beyrouth Aller-Retour. His work on the urban landscape of Marseille in 1986 resulted in an exhibition at the Musée de la Vieille Charité and in a sustained interest in photographing cities. In 1989 he joined the Rapho agency and won the Prix Medicis Hors les Murs, before spending a year in Egypt retracing “the steps of Gustave Flaubert and Maxime Du Camp.” In 1991, he took part in a collective mission in downtown Beirut in the aftermath of the war, and his work was published in an album Beirut City Centre by Editions du Cyprès in Paris, followed by an exhibition at the Paris Palais de Tokyo in 1993. Soon after, he initiated several stays in Gaza and the Occupied Territories, resulting in the publication of Palestine, l'envers du miroir by Editions Hazan in Paris in 1996, and the shooting of his first film Jours tranquilles en Palestine produced by Arte for the 50th anniversary of the creation of Israel. He then published two other books Liban Provisoire by Hazan in 1998 and Suite Egyptienne with Actes Sud (France) in 1999. The Paris-based Maison Européenne de la Photographie held a retrospective of his work during the autumn of 2002, including a film Lettres a Francine. The photographic compositions he exhibited there were published in a book by Marval as Sombres. He is a co-founder of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation.