Alice Cazenave

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Polyphenyl Dark
The City That Kodak Built
a:yetíya' dágeha’ [We Should Help Her]  
Scarify
Red. Lined.  
Desert Treasure
Among The Weeds And The Waste
[de]compose
LAND / SEAS / SUN
Breathe

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©2025 Alice Cazenave

Bio

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Alice Cazenave is a photographic artist & doctoral researcher examining links between photographic metals, colonialism and ecological crises. She is creating an alternative archive of photography’s history that foregrounds links between silver,  film industries, and chemical violence. She reimagines ecological futures of photography through the use of hand-mixed, plant-based photo-chemistries.  Alice is based between London and New York.

Positions include: 
2025-26 Ansel Adams Fellow (Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona)
2024 Artist-in-residence (Hong Kong International Photo Festival)
Visiting scholar at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
2023 TRACTS Fellow (Leiden University)
Advisor to the Sustainable Darkroom, a charity researching lower-toxicity photographic methods.  

Alice has exhibited internationally at institutions including Centre for Creative Photography (Finland), Saatchi (London), BWA Gallery (Poland), London Art Fair, Pointsman (Hong Kong), Halide Project (Philadelphia) and Chappe Contemporary Art Museum (Finland). She has been published in renowned journals including The British Journal of Photography, 1000 words magazine, the Guardian,  the New York Times, and PLANT: Exploring the Botanical World (Phaidon Press).

She has presented research at the Photographic Histories Research Centre (UK), EASA (Barcelona) and Polar Film Lab (Norway). 

Her PhD research has been published internationally with TRAJECTORIA (Japan),  Leuven Press (upcoming book chapter, Ecologies of Photography) and De Gruyter (upcoming photo essay, Counter Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches).