en

The Lost Empire | Fouad Elkoury

  • Lebanon
  • 2019
  • fr
  • en
  • 8'

Fouad Elkoury likes to photograph traces, ruins, and that part of mystery, nostalgia and history that they carry. When in 2009, he discovers the disused Soviet bases, he photographs all of them: in Poland, Hungary, East Germany. Overgrown by nature, they remain haunted by the ghost of the Soviet army...

The Lost Empire | Fouad Elkoury
Watch the trailer

Synopsis

Fouad Elkoury likes to photograph traces, ruins, and that part of mystery, nostalgia and history that they carry. When in 2009, he discovers the disused Soviet bases, he photographs all of them: in Poland, Hungary, East Germany. Overgrown by nature, they remain haunted by the ghost of the Soviet army...

What you will find in this film

A journey into former Soviet bases • Photographing disused places • Urbex in military zones • Photographic wandering

Keywords

Colour Architectural photography Landscape photography Photographic Film

Access all the films, articles and
resources in our collection.

Behind the scenes of photography!

Discover the world of photography through a selection of reference documentaries, original creations, unpublished articles and exclusive interviews.

A unique film collection…

The Darkroom Rumour  is a collection of films and video works that invites you to discover an art that has become a daily practice. It is a new kind of video library designed to inspire and to cultivate its practice and its photographic world.

New films and new articles are added every month.

Articles and interviews relating to the films

The Darkroom Rumour  introduces films, identifies content, proposes themes and focus, links and references, so that you spend more time watching films than choosing them…

Accessible on all your devices, whenever you like

The Darkroom Rumour  is available anytime, via streaming, anywhere in the world, on your connected TV, computer, tablet and mobile.

Accessible on all your devices, whenever you like
Sign up

The authors/artists

Emmanuel Bacquet
Author
Fouad Elkoury
Photographe

Further exploration

Bibliography

LA SAGESSE DU PHOTOGRAPHE
Fouad Elkoury - Autobiography - Editions l'Oeil neuf, Paris, 2004

BE... LONGING
Fouad Elkoury - Monograph - French / English, Steidl Verlag, 2011

SOMBRES
Fouad Elkoury - Monograph - Editions Marval, Paris, 2002

SUITE ÉGYPTIENNE : SUR LES TRACES DE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ET DE MAXIME DU CAMP
Fouad Elkoury / Pierre Dumayet - Editions Acte Sud, 1999

LE COEUR DEMEURE : DU NIL A LA SEINE
Fouad Elkoury / Andrée Chedid - Stock, Paris, 1999

LIBAN PROVISOIRE
Fouad Elkoury, Editions Hazan, Paris, 1998

PALESTINE : L’ENVERS DU MIROIR
Fouad Elkoury, Editions Hazan, Paris, 1996

BEYROUTH ALLER-RETOUR
Fouad Elkoury, Editions de l’Etoile, Paris, 1984