Alan Gignoux

Alan Gignoux is an award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Gignoux Photos, which produces documentary photography and film projects focusing on socio-political and environmental issues around the world.

Gignoux is dedicated to highlighting the impact of displacement on communities worldwide. His most exhibited body of work, Homeland Lost, juxtaposes portraits of Palestinian refugees with their former homes in Israel.

He has been a regular visitor to the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria, building relationships and recording camp life since 2005.

For his recent Arts Council funded project, “You can see me, but I don’t exist,” he used a camera obscura to document asylum seekers living in limbo in the UK.

Alongside his work documenting refugee communities, Gignoux has for the past ten years been investigating and recording the impact of fossil fuels extraction and metals mining and refining on local communities.

His photographs show the way in which landscapes have been permanently altered to make way for mining, scarred by the infrastructure of the mining industry, and poisoned by pollution of the air, soil, and water.

The short documentary films that often accompany his images reveal through interviews t...

London College of Printing '00 (Photography Practice)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-4 ‘To the Sea,’ Shutterhub, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
2023 ‘You can see me, but I don’t exist’ solo presentation at Helsinki Photo Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2022 ‘Postcards from Europe,’ Shutterhub, Art at the ARB, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
2020 Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 162, London, national tour, UK
2019 ‘Taxed to the Max,’ Photo Festival, Groeningen, Netherlands
POW! WOW! Shutterhub, Rotterdam, Netherlands
RECLAIM Photo Festival, Cologne, Germany
2015 Royal Geographical Society and The Forestry Commission, London, national tour, UK
2014 ‘Oil Sands: Curse or Blessing,’ Studio 45, Brighton Photo Fringe, UK
2011 ‘Eye on Palestine,’ University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
2011 ‘Carousel,’ Host Gallery, London, UK
2010 ‘Palestine: Remembering a Lost Homeland,’ Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
2008 ‘Palestine: Remembering a Lost Homeland,’ Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
2007 ‘Out of the Ordinary,’ Dar al Anda Gallery, Amman, Jordan
‘Homeland Lost: Western Sahara,’ Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, London, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘You can see me, but I don’t exist,’ Library of Birmingham, UK
2023 ‘You can see me, but I don’t exist,’ Manchester Central Library, UK
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