ALAN GIGNOUX TALK AND BOOK SIGNING AT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY LONDON

For the last seven years, I have been busy working in the world of photobook making, self-publishing, design, editing, researching, and sequencing documentary photography with Alan Gignux / GIGNOUX PHOTOS Studio. Looking at ways to tell documentary projects in an interactive way, so it’s a more intimate immersive experience for the reader. You can read a brilliant book review by Douglas Stockdale at The Photo Book Journal

We are launching Mountaintops to Moonscapes at The Photographers Gallery on Thursday 5th May

FREE TICKETS EVENTBRITE

The ancient mountain forests of Appalachia are being felled. What remains is an eerie, barren, and lunar landscape of rough-hewn rock. Alan Gignoux witnesses the devastating effects of mountaintop removal in America’s coal heartland. Appalachia: Mountaintops to Moonscapes features photography and interviews with activists and local residents. https://gignouxphotos.com/projects/appalachia-from-mountaintops-to-moonscapes/

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 with curator Jenny Christensson 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 Sands was self-published as a photobook in 2018 and won first prize in the Los Angeles Center of Photography Photobook Journal competition in 2019.

This will also be a rare opportunity to hear Chloe Juno and Emily Macaulay of Gignoux Photos explain how these unique, hand-made books were created, drawing on both the grassroots tradition of the low-cost zine and the artisanal tradition of Japanese photobooks.

Guests attending on May 5th will have an unmissable opportunity to purchase signed editions of Mountaintops to Moonscapes and Oil Sands with a special 10% discount + free limited edition Gignoux Photos tote bag with each purchase.

Thursday, 5th May from 6.30 – 8pm

The Photographers’ Gallery Cafe

16-18 Ramillies Street

London W1F 7LW

Book FREE tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alan-gignoux-mountaintops-to-moonscapes-book-launch-and-talk-tickets-317565666457

With thanks to The Photographers’ Gallery Book Shop.

Emily Stanley hand binding ‘ Mountaintops to Moonscapes’ Video Curtis James www.stanleyjamespress.com