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Russian Rust Belt

Russian Rust Belt

Alan Gignoux

Russian Rust Belt brings together Alan Gignoux’s photographs of the Ural industrial region, made during a 2009 residency with the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg.

The Urals played a central role in Russia’s economic development and military industry for more than 300 years, becoming especially important to Stalin’s plans for Soviet industrialisation. After the collapse of the USSR, the region was left with the consequences of that industrial project: failing factories, ageing equipment, decaying housing, job losses, population decline and severe environmental damage.

The design of Russian Rust Belt draws on Soviet photobooks produced between 1920 and 1941, known for their bold typography, photomontage, cut-outs, overlays, gatefolds and foldout pages. Gignoux’s book takes these visual devices apart, using them to reflect the fracture and decline of the Soviet industrial legacy.

Available in a limited edition of only 100 copies, Russian Rust Belt explores the physical and social landscape of a post-Soviet industrial region living with the remains of its past.

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DETAILS: Edition of 100

Type: Hand Bound

Publication Includes:

- 264 pages including foldout pages distributed throughout the book

- 182 colour photos in total

- 1 foldout montage

Year: 2023

Pages: 264 pages

ISBN: 978-1-9999610-6-0

Size: 186 x 277 mm

Alan Gignoux

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

Essay & Texts by Jenny Christensson

Jenny Christensson is a London-based curator, editor and publisher specialising in documentary photography, socially engaged practice, and visual culture.
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