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Fouad Elkoury has been at the forefront of photographic practices in Lebanon and the wider Middle East for quite some time. In 1982, he covered the Israeli invasion of Beirut and in 1984 published Beyrouth Aller-Retour, a book documenting the bomb-shocked city - a prelude to his sophomore project Beirut City Centre in 1991, and ignited a distinguished bibliography which continues to this day.
Elkoury created the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation in 1997, and in 2001 introduced video into his repertoire with the film Lettres à Francine to accompany the chiaroscuro-esque photographic series Sombre, with Moving Out (2003) and Welcome to Beirut (2005) to follow.
Elkoury’s On Love and War, a series of journal entries spanning the duration of Israel’s onslaught onto Lebanon in august 2006 was shown in Lebanon’s first National Pavillion in the Venice Biennale of 2007.
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Smile, 2008, Ink jet print mounted on aluminium, 50 x 75 cm |
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