
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.

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).

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.


Originally from Wadi al-Hawarith (formerly Palestine) Living in Tulkarm refugee camp, West Bank (Israeli occupied territories)





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:
Hope Chapel
Hebden Bridge
West Yorkshire
HX7 8AD
Wednesday, 20th November at 7:45pm
4 Leonard Circus
London EC2A 4DQ
Friday, 22nd November from 7:00 – 8:30pm
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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