Lebanese photographer and filmmaker Fouad Elkoury, on show at the Print Sales Gallery – "Preserving Time" – downstairs at the Photographers' Gallery:
"If my images just show the event happening in front of me, the meaning of it will die when the event dies. For my pictures to be preserved in time, they had to be more symbolic."
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The Football Match, Beirut, 1980
Cinéma Liberté, Cairo, 1987
Kuchuk Hanem, Cairo, 1990
Adana Iskenderun Road, 1999
Umm Kulthum Café, Luxor, 1990
Portemilio, 1984
The Picnic, 1979
El Mahamid, 1990
Man with Radio, Beirut, 1995
[Images © Fouad Elkoury]
Mick Hartley 
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