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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.

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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.

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



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