Selected works
Legacies of Photographic Silver
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
©2024 Alice Cazenave
2016 - ongoing
Photographic images printed within pelargonium leaves (no light-sensitive emulsion is coated onto the leaf surface)
6cm x 7cm, varying sizes
This series was the first of its kind and uses pelargonium printing to create photographic artworks. Pelargonium printing uses plant photosynthesis to create photographic images inside the leaves’ surfaces.
Different from chlorophyll printing, these prints are made by living leaves that respond to light and carbon dioxide. As they absorb these elements, they photosynthesise in the trace of a negative. This transformation of light and atmosphere into plant energy inspires the title of the series, Breathe.
Breathe was published in The British Journal of Photography and The Guardian's My Best Shot feature, and was commissioned for the exhibition Fabric of Photography, Oxford, 2021.
Interview and process demonstration comissioned by the London Alternative Photography Collective, 2019.