Fouad Elkoury was born in 1952 in Paris, and today lives between Paris and Beirut. After studying architecture in London in 1979, Elkoury turned to photography and depicted Beirut during the civil war. In 1997 Elkoury co-founded the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, which archives and promotes photography from the surrounding region. Be … Longing This book presents photographs from Fouad Elkoury’s forty-year career, many of which have not been published until now. From Beirut to Paris, from Cairo to Istanbul, and in other places where Elkoury has left a part of himself behind, his images form a pictorial autobiography across different cultures. Regardless of his subject – concrete skeletons of skyscrapers under construction, an armed solder waiting behind a bank of sandbags, a fur coat drying on a clothesline – Elkoury’s photographs convey the unavoidable passing of time.
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