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 […]

Bruised Lands Exhibition Highlights

31st October – 12th November, 2021 at Wasps The Briggait Our exhibition Bruised Lands was exhibited at Wasps the Briggait in Glasgow concurrent with the COP 26 conference on climate change. Alan Gignoux, and co-curators Chloe Juno and Jenny Christensson had an interesting week meeting and talking with visitors. Judging from the number of leaflets […]

September 17, 2021

Bruised Lands in Glasgow for COP 26

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AT WASPS THE BRIGGAIT, GLASGOW 31st October – 12th November 2021 Bruised Lands brings together four unique yet interconnected bodies of work by documentary photographer Alan Gignoux: Oil Sands, Monuments, Appalachia, and Russian Rust Belt. Focusing on four locations across Canada, Europe, the US, and Russia, the photographic series document the harvesting of […]

March 26, 2021

Russian Rust Belt – New Photobook

Alan Gignoux visited the Urals industrial region in Russia in 2009 during a residency sponsored by the NCCA (National Centre for Contemporary Art).  Once the driving force behind the Soviet military-industrial complex, the Urals industrial region is now the Russian rustbelt, suffering from economic decline and severe environmental degradation.  Alan travelled throughout the region documenting […]

October 5, 2020

Gignoux Photos launches two new zines

Welcome to the new Gignoux Photos website!  During the lockdown period the team – Alan, Chloe, Jenny and Emily – took the opportunity to review Alan’s considerable archive of photos taken around the world over the past 20 years.  From his early days as a stringer in South Africa, to his newest project which has […]

September 24, 2020

“Taxed to the Max,” Noorderlicht Photography Festival 2019

We are very proud to announce that ‘OIL SANDS’ has been selected for exhibition at the Noorderlicht International Photography Festival 2019: TAXED TO THE MAX… at least you are not afraid to live on the brink of chaos.  TAXED TO THE MAX examines the societal tensions created by international conglomerates with their vast accumulations of […]

January 15, 2020

RPS International Photography Exhibition 162

We are delighted that one of the photographs from APPALACHIA: MOUNTAINTOPS TO MOONSCAPES has been selected for the RPS International Photography Exhibition, touring from February 2020 to October 2021. The exhibition celebrates “compelling and contemporary imagery from photographers worldwide.”

September 25, 2019

Open Eye Zine and Photobook Fair

We are pleased to announce that the OIL SANDS zine was selected for exhibition at the Open Eye Zine and Photobook Fair in Liverpool in September 2019. The organizers, Open Eye Gallery, also kept several copies to stock in their bookshop.

July 12, 2019

Platforma – “You can see me, but I don’t exist.”

Alan is working with Platforma, the Arts and Refugees network, on a project that highlights the experience of refugees living in limbo whilst awaiting a response to their asylum or residency applications. He has chosen to photograph the refugees using a camera obscura: “I am using a Camera Obscura to keep the background in sharp […]

June 11, 2019

Alan Gignoux: “Bruised Lands” Exhibition

Fishing Quarter Gallery, Brighton, 12th-18th July 2019  Photography from three environmental projects by photographer Alan Gignoux will be exhibited at Fishing Quarter Gallery in Brighton. Curated by Chloe Juno. OIL SANDS – The Oil Sands of Northern Alberta represent one of the biggest social, environmental and political dilemmas of our time. Alan and his team have […]