September 1, 2022

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 […]

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 […]