The French commercial photographer Félix Adrien Bonfils (1831 - 1885) pursued his career in the Middle East. He was a pioneer who employed the Photochrom process invented in the 1880s to produce colourised images. He opened the famous photo studio “Maison Bonfils” with his family in Beirut. His work portfolio covers an extensive area, including Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece, and Constantinople.