Selected works
Legacies of Photographic Silver
Desert Treasure
Among The Weeds And The Waste
a:yetíya' dágeha’ [We Should Help Her]
Red. Lined.
Scarify
The City That Kodak Built
[de]compose
LAND / SEAS / SUN
©2024 Alice Cazenave
Photographic artist & doctoral researcher
Examining the toxicity and colonial dynamics surrounding silver extraction for film industries. Creating an alternative archive of film photography’s history that foregrounds social and ecological impacts of the industry. Reimagining ecological futures of photography through the use of hand-mixed, plant-based photo-chemistries. Based between London and New York.
Project lead at the Sustainable Darkroom, a charity researching lower-toxicity photographic methods. 2024 artist-in-residence at Hong Kong International Photo Festival. 2023 visiting scholar at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. 2022 artist-in-residence at Silver City, Nevada.
Exhibited internationally, including Saatchi (London), London Art Fair, Pointsman (Hong Kong), Halide Project (Philidelphia) and Chappe Contemporary Art Museum (Finland). Published in renowned journals including The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, New York Times, as well as PLANT: Exploring the Botanical World (Phaidon Press).
Image courtesy of Edd Carr
Still photograph from I AM A DARKROOM experimental documentary