Fouad Elkoury

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 Beyrouth Aller-Retour. His work on the urban landscape of Marseille in 1986 resulted in an exhibition at the MusŽe de la Vieille CharitŽ and in a sustained interest in photographing cities: Rome, Amman, Djibouti.
In 1989 he joined the Rapho agency and won the Prix Medicis Hors les Murs, before spending several months 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. This work was published in an album Beirut City Centre by Editions du Cypr�s in Paris, followed by an exhibition at the Paris Palais de Tokyo in 1993. This book became a landmark in the history of photography. After the shakehand between Israelis and Palestinians at the White House, he initiated several stays in Gaza and the Occupied Territories which resulted in the publication of Palestine, l'envers du miroir by Editions Hazan in Paris in 1996. Two other books followed almost simultaneously, Liban Provisoire published by Hazan in 1998 and Suite Egyptienne with Actes Sud (France) in 1999.


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