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4 unusual facts about Fouad Elkoury


Arab Image Foundation

Arab Image Foundation was created in 1997 by photographers Fouad Elkoury and Samer Mohdad, artist Akram Zaatari, and Walid Raad as a reaction to the lack of photographic archives in the region and the rapid disappearance of the few that remained.

Fouad Elkoury

a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect, preserve and study photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora.

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.

Fouad ElKoury began his photographic career producing images of daily life during the Lebanese Civil War.



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