This November Alan Gignoux gives a series of talks in the UK

Photographer Alan Gignoux photographing asylum seekers in Manchester in front of a red brick building
Alan Gignoux photographing asylum seekers in Manchester for his series “You can see me, but I don’t exist.”

During February this year, Alan Gignoux participated in a residency with Sala 752 in Zaczernie, Poland. Gignoux used the opportunity to research and photograph coal mining in the local region with the intention of expanding his growing portfolio of projects, grouped under the title Bruised Lands, which look at the impact of fossil fuels mining on the environment.

Poster advertising a talk at a Polish gallery by Alan Gignoux featuring a dog howling behind a wooden gate
Poster advertising Alan Gignoux’s talk at Galeria Fotografii Miasta Rzeszowa on 5th Feburary, 2024

While in Poland, Gignoux was invited to speak about his photography at Galeria Fotografii Miasta Rzeszowa. His gallery talk focussed on his environmental series: Oil Sands (mining and its consequences in Alberta, Canada), Appalachia (mountaintop removal coal mining and its consequences in Wise County, Virginia), Monuments (the destruction of local communities to make way for surface coal mining in Germany) and Russian Rustbelt (the economic and environmental legacy of Soviet industry in the Urals).

Photo of the exterior of Panter and Hall Gallery in Mayfair in London
Exterior of Panter and Hall Gallery, Pall Mall, London

More recently, Gignoux gave a talk at Panter and Hall Gallery in London on 19th September. Here, Gignoux talked about his early days as a stringer working for Reuters and Associated Press in South Africa and his early work in the Middle East. It was there that his interest in refugee situations began with his first major project sponsored by the British Council in East Jerusalem, Homeland Lost. Gignouxphotos will next year publish a photobook of this series, which paired Palestinian refugees of ’48 and ’67 with their former homes in Israel. He went on to speak about Bruised Lands and his long-term commitment to environmental questions. 

Vrededorp, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2001
Vrededorp, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2001
Hussein al-Luwaisi ‘Abu Khalid’ Originally from Wadi al-Hawarith (formerly Palestine) Living in Tulkarm refugee camp, West Bank (Israeli occupied territories)
Hussein al-Luwaisi ‘Abu Khalid’
Originally from Wadi al-Hawarith (formerly Palestine) Living in Tulkarm refugee camp, West Bank (Israeli occupied territories)


Kefar ha-Ro’e (Israel) Formerly Wadi al-Hawarith (Palestine)
Kefar ha-Ro’e (Israel) Formerly Wadi al-Hawarith (Palestine)
Photo of a residential urban area next to a large polluting industrial site
Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Urals, 2009
Aerial view of industrial activity in a surface bitumen mine
Ore Preparation Plant, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2010
Mountaintops to Moonscapes: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Wise County, Virginia, 2012
Monuments: Condemned House, Morschenich, Germany, 2019

November Talks in the UK

Please join us for further evening talks at the following locations. Ticketing information (where applicable) and start times will be posted on Instagram closer to the dates:

Hebden Bridge Camera Club

Hope Chapel

Hebden Bridge

West Yorkshire

HX7 8AD

Wednesday, 20th November at 7:45pm

The Photobook Café

4 Leonard Circus

London EC2A 4DQ

Friday, 22nd November from 7:00 – 8:30pm

Photofusion

Unit 2

2 Beehive Place

London SW9 7QR

Thursday, 5th December from 6:30 – 7:30pm

The talks will be followed by an opportunity to buy signed copies of Gignoux’s limited edition photobooks and zines.

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