October 18, 2022

Monuments launch at Photobook Week Aarhus

Gignoux Photos will be launching our latest photobook, Monuments, at Photobook Week Aarhus in Denmark from 28th – 30th October 2022.  This is the first time that Gignoux Photos will be attending the festival, which since 2014 has focused on the rapidly growing international interest in photobooks in recent years.  The theme of this year’s […]

October 10, 2022

Gignoux receives National Lottery Project Grant

Alan Gignoux has received a National Lottery Project Grant, which will allow the team at Gignoux Photos to complete our “You can see me, but I don’t exist” project exploring the emotional and psychological impact of the asylum-seeking process on applicants .  This Lottery funding makes it possible for us to extend our creative cooperation […]

October 6, 2022

Gignoux Photos at BOP 22

Gignoux Photos had a very positive experience at the Fiebre Photobook Fair in Madrid last month.  Our encounters there led not only to book sales, but also to several exciting developments, including an invitation from curator Mortiz Neumuller to participate at the Aarhus Photobook Week in Denmark, where we will be from October 28-30. Gignoux […]

September 15, 2022

Collaboration with Anthony Burrill

Anthony Burill and Partisan Press Gignoux Photos is collaborating with graphic artist Anthony Burrill, who has designed the striking titles for our RUSSIAN RUST BELT photobook.  Anthony used a wood block typeface from the collection of Partisan Press, Moscow. Partisan Press are a small print studio who make woodtype printed posters using type from an […]

September 1, 2022

Gignoux Photos at Fiebre Photobook Festival

Come and see Gignoux Photos at Fiebre in Madrid from September 23rd to 25th.  Fiebre is the first and only festival in Spain dedicated to the photobook. 

Collaboration with Jesuit Refugee Service

Since the beginning of this year, Gignoux Photos has been collaborating with JRS, the Jesuit Refugee Service, in Wapping to further develop our “You can see me, but I don’t exist” project exploring the effect of the asylum-seeking process in the UK on individuals.  

April 13, 2022

Talk and book signing at The Photographers’ Gallery

Alan Gignoux will be launching his new photobook Mountaintops to Moonscapes with a special talk and book signing event at The Photographer’s Gallery on May 5th. Alan will talk about his experiences making this body of work and a related photography series, Oil Sands, which looks at the bitumen mining industry in Alberta, Canada. Oil […]

January 7, 2022

Emily hand-binding Mountaintops to Moonscapes

Emily Macaulay of Stanley James press hand-bound each of the 100 books in the edition of Mountaintops to Moonscapes individually. Mountaintops to Moonscapes comprises a large format softcover book with slip-sleeve and a booklet (buy book here) In the larger book, Gignoux’s large scale aerial photographs reveal the transformation of a mountainous region of ancient […]

Shutterhub Postcards From Europe

We are delighted that Shutterhub has selected photographs from Alan’s project “You can see me, but I don’t exist” for their Postcards From Europe exhibition this year. Thank you, Shutterhub, for curating this exhibition and creating opportunities to show work. For this ongoing project, Alan has used a camera obscura to photograph refugees in locations […]

December 1, 2021

Mountaintops to Moonscapes Photobook Launch

Gignoux Photos announces the publication of Mountaintops to Moonscapes, a handmade photobook in which photographer Alan Gignoux documents the ruinous impact of mountaintop removal mining on the Appalachian region and its people. Described by environmentalists as “strip mining on steroids,” mountaintop removal mining uses explosives to take up to 800 feet off the top of […]

November 18, 2021

Considering Art Podcast

Thank you Bob Chaundy, who interviewed Alan Gignoux in November for his Considering Art podcast series. Alan and Bob talked about Alan’s career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer, discussing his early photographic work in South Africa and his photo-essays documenting Palestinian and Saharawi refugees, and moving on to his environmental projects, including the four […]