OIL SANDS
Alan Gignoux
gignouxphotos
2019
Reino Unido
London
Chloe Juno
Hand saddle stitched with black thread
ISBN: 978-1-9999610-0-8
64, including 16 smaller text pages
Larger pages printed on a satin FSC 200gsm paper. Smaller pages printed on a FSC 120gsm uncoated grey paper. Textured card cover and corrugated card slip sleeve.
Press:
Source, book review by Colin Pantall, Summer 2019; Photobook Journal, book review by Douglas Stockdale, 26th January 2020
Book fairs:
Photobook Show, Brighton, 2019; K Book Show, Lithuania, 2019; Athens Photobook Festival, 2019; Printed Matter, New York, 2019, LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, 2019; Noua Photobook Cafe; Open Eye Gallery Book Fair, Liverpool, 2019; Impressions Gallery Book Fair, Bradford, 2019
Awards:
FIRST PRIZE Winner (LACP) 2019 PhotoBook Journal Competition ‘OIL SANDS’ Los Angeles Center of Photography
“Oil Sands is a sober book, an example of how straight documentary is using book arts to further its message,” Colin Pantall, Source
Oil Sands project documents the devastating effects that the extraction of oil can have on a landscape as well as the complicated human relationship with the oil industry.
Hidden within the vast landscape photographs are a number of pockets that contain fragments of often overlooked stories documenting the experiences of the people most effected by the oil industry in this area.
