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Be...longing
Text by Fouad Elkoury
Steidl
2011
160 pages |
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A free narrative of pictures taken over more than 40 years |
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What happened to my dreams?
Texts by Francine Deroudille and Negar Azimi
Espace Kettaneh-Kunigk
2010
72 pages |
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A photographic series of 32 visuals addressing a range of contemporary socio-political issues. |
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On war and love
Text by Fouad Elkoury
Editions Intervalles, Paris
2007
96 pages |
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Based on a diary written during the 33 days of the war in Lebanon in the summer
2006, between July 13th and August 14th, this series of compositions superimpose an intimate layer over a political one. |
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La sagesse du photographe
Text by Fouad Elkoury
Editions de l’œil neuf, Paris
2004
112 pages |
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Initiated by Jean Claude Behar, as part of a series of texts on different professional practices, this book is an insight on how photography and life have modeled each other. |
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Sombres
Text by Fouad Elkoury
Marval, Paris.
2002
138 pages |
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An intimate book exploring personal wounds. Photographs are combined to create multiple compositions and bear new meanings. This volume was conceived over a year just after a period of illness and the September 11 event. |
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Suite égyptienne
Texts by Pierre Dumayet and Fouad Elkoury
Actes Sud, Arles.
1999
120 pages |
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One hundred and fifty years later, a journey through Egypt on the steps of Maxime Du Camp and Flaubert. The work turns its back on the initial orientalist story and evolves into a personal fiction based on contemporary Egypt. |
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Le cœur demeure
Texts by Andrée et Louis Chedid
Stock, Paris.
1999
112 pages |
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A letter correspondence between the French writer Andrée Chedid and her husband, remembering their youth in Egypt.
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Liban Provisoire
Introduction by Michel Luxembourg
Editions Hazan, Paris.
1998
136 pages |
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Designed by Ernesto Aparicio, this volume brings together photographs of Lebanon spanning nearly thirty years. It juxtaposes images of pre-war life with those of the civil war and subsequent reconstruction. |
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Palestine - L'envers du miroir
Text by Fouad Elkoury
Editions Hazan, Paris.
1996
88 pages |
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A photographic and textual road diary documenting life in Palestinian cities. The work was carried out just after the Oslo agreements, when hope towards a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict was prevailing. |
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Beyrouth aller-retour
Text by Fouad Elkoury
Editions de l’Etoile, Paris.
1984
108 pages |
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A narration of the civil war in Lebanon. This book, divided into three parts (before, during, and after the Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982), documents the daily life of people in their struggle for survival. |
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I tempi di Roma
Introduction by Francesco Rutelli. Text by Alain Bergala
Adam Biro, Paris.
2000
160 pages |
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On the eve of year 2000, the collective vision of 10 photographers (Gabriele Basilico, Stéphane Couturier, Fouad Elkoury, Leonard Freed, Harry Gruyaert, Josef Koudelka, Paulo Nozolino, Ferdinando Scianna, Keichi Tahara, Cristina Garcia Rodero) in their attempt to portray Rome as a city of multiple temporalities. |
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L’Olivier, le don de la Méditerrannée
Introductions by Olivier Baussan and Thibault Leclerc
Les Editions du Bottin Gourmand/Oliviers & Co
1999
144 pages |
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18 photographers picture the symbolic, cultural and organic significance of the olive tree in different countries around the Mediterranean. |
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Les 3 grandes Egyptiennes
Texts by Marie-Cecile Bruwier and Alain D’Hoogue
Marval, Paris.
1996
188 pages |
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Images of the pyramids of Gizeh in Egypt taken by photographers from 1839 until 1995 and compiled into a photographic history.
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Europe rurale
Introduction by Jean Puech
Filigranes Editions, Begard.
1994
100 pages |
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Commissioned by the French Ministry of Agriculture for an internationally touring exhibition, 17 photographers depict their impressions of rurality in 12 European countries. |
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Petra, le dit des pierres
Introduction by Philippe Cardinal
Actes Sud, Arles.
1993
232 pages |
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12 writers (J.-M. G. Le Clézio, Jamal Abu Hamdan, Anne Wade Minkowski, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Tahar Ben Jalloun, Nabil Naoum, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Adonis, Claude Ollier, Abdessalam Al-Ujayli, Michel Butor, Gamal Ghitany) and 5 photographers (Fouad Elkoury, Thierry Girard, Bernard Guillot, Jean-Philippe Reverdot, François Sagnes) portray the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. |
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Beirut City Centre
Texts by Dominique Edde and Adonis
Editions du Sycomore, Paris.
1992
176 pages |
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Six photographers (Gabriele Basilico, René Burri, Raymond Depardon, Fouad Elkoury, Robert Frank and Josef Koudelka) were commissioned by the publishers to document downtown war-torn Beirut and preserve the memory of its ruins before post-war reconstruction of the city. |
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