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
©2025 Alice Cazenave
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
©2025 Alice Cazenave
Contact
cazenave.media@gmail.com | @alice_cazenave_
Education
2022-25 PhD Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London
‘Legacies of Photographic Silver: Entangled Histories, Geologies & Lives’
This doctoral research follows the metals and chemistries used in analogue photography to examine links between film industries, settler-colonialism, and the Anthropocene.
Arts & Humanities Research Council, fully funded 3 year scholarship
This doctoral research follows the metals and chemistries used in analogue photography to examine links between film industries, settler-colonialism, and the Anthropocene.
Arts & Humanities Research Council, fully funded 3 year scholarship
2020-21 MRes Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London, Distinction
2018-19 MA Social Anthropology, SOAS, Distinction
2013-15 MA Art & Science, Central Saint Martins School of Art, University Arts London, Distinction
2009-12 BSc Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, 2:1, Dissertation 1st
Artist Residencies
2024 Hong Kong International Photo FestivaL x Koon Man Space, Hong Kong
2022 Silver City Artist Residence Programme, Nevada, U.S.A
2022 ÖRES, Örö island, Finland
2021 Test | Grow | Learn | Test, Guest Projects, UK
2020 Recycle | Remove | Repurpose | Rework, London Alternative Photography Collective, U.K
Fellowships & Honours
2025 Ansel Adams Research Fellow, Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
2024 TRACTS Fellow, Leiden University, Netherlands
2022 CHASE AHRC Doctoral Scholarship. Competitive 3 year scholarship
[awarded to 50 researchers in the UK nationally]
2019 Outstanding Scholar Award, Social Anthropology, SOAS
2015 MullenLowe NOVA Award, Shortlist
Exhibitions & Media Work
Curatorial Projects
2024 Guest co-curator for Guest Room, Der Greif
2024 The Active Image: Political Ecology & Photographic Agency, Create Gallery, Bristol, UK
Co-curated with Hannah Fletcher [Sustainable Darkroom] and Sophie Sherwood [Bristol Folk House]
2024 FORAGE: Towards Ecological Futures in Photography, Cass Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Co-curated with Nathan Ely [CEPA Gallery]
Group Shows
2025 My Work Here Is Done, Centre for Creative Photography, Finland
2025 A Touch Of Nature, BWA Gallery, Poland
2024 Metamorphosis: Innovations in Eco Photography and Film, Saatchi, London, UK
In collaboration with Hannah Fletcher
2024 MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction? University of Delaware, USA
2024 Living Image, Halide Project, Philadelphia, USA
2024 Opaque Shattering, Truth Awakens, Pointsman Gallery, Hong Kong
2024 Displace/Disperse, Agitate Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2024 Grafting: The Land and the Artist, Photo 50, London Art Fair, UK
2023 Climate & Art: Alternative Approaches, Chappe Contemporary Art Museum, Finland
2023 Beyond Silver, Hive Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2022 Desert Treasure, Silver City , Nevada, USA
2022 Fabric of Photography: Material Matters, Photo Oxford, UK
2022 WHAT ON EARTH? Koppel Project, London, UK
2021 TERRA NEXUS, Proposition Studios, London, UK
Reviews of Visual Projects
2025 Legacy: The City That Kodak Built
Henning, M. A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, University of Chicago Press.
[In preparation]
2025 Desert Treasure
Rupert Cox, R. & Chris Wright (eds.), Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropolgy, Routledge [In preparation]
2025 Artist interview, MPB Meets Alice Cazenave: The Darkroom Innovator Making Film Photography Eco-Friendly
2024 Photo 50 2024 Grafting: The Land and the Artist Exhibition review
1000 words magazine
2024 Feature in experimental film documentary I AM A DARKROOM by artist Edd Carr, produced by DeBeDo Projects
2016 Photographic series feature in Plant: Exploring the Botanical World, Phaidon Press
2015 Artist interview, How Photography Is Just Like Photosynthesis, The British Journal of Photography
2015 Artist interview, Delicate, Magical Portraits of Plants’ Inner Lives, The New York Times, Style Magazine
2015 Artist interview, My Best Shot, The Guardian
Teaching Experience
Postgraduate Degree Teaching
2024 Guest lecturer in Visual Anthropology | Goldsmiths, University of London
2024 Guest reviewer for Material Narratives of Photographic Image-making, Media Studies | Royal College of Art
2021-22 MA Visual Communication | Canterbury Christ Church University
Associate Lecturer and module lead in Critical Thinking and Project Development modules
Undergraduate Degree Teaching
2024 Guest lecturer in Visual Anthropology | Goldsmiths, University of London
Invited Lectures
2025 The Silver Record, Polar Film Lab, Norway [Upcoming]
In collaboration with Photo North (Finland), Labor Berlin (Germany), Light Cone (France) & Videokunstarkivet (Norway)
2025 Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona [Upcoming]
2024 Legacy: The City That Kodak Built, VSW Salon , Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
2024 Kodak, Contamination & Ecological Futures in Photography
MFA Photography, Visiting Scholar in Art & Sustainability | Rochester institute of Technology, New York
2022 Critical Ecologies: Media Materiality & Photographic Silver
Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona
Photography Workshops
2024 Festival de Fotografia Analogica | Chamusca, Portugal
2024 Sustainable Darkroom Annual Workshop Week | SET studios, London
2024 Hong Kong International Photo Festival
2023 Sustainable Darkroom Workshop Week | Intrepid studios, Brighton, UK
2023 Penumbra Foundation, New York
2023 Animated Ecologies, New York University
2023 New York University, Abu Dhabi
2022 V&A london
2022 Photo Oxford, UK
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2025 Parallel Archives: Photographic Silver and its Landscapes
Special Theme: Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies, Issue. 6
Trajectoria | Anthropology, Museums & Art
Photography Publications
2024 Media . Earth . Minerals, Fracture: Ecology, Time, Humanity, 14th issue, The Eyes Publishing
Book Contributions
2025 Ecologies of Photography, Co-edited by Monica Bravo & Carolin Görgen, Lueven University Press
[chapter contribution, in preparation]
2025 Counter Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines, De Gruyter
[photo-essay contribution, in preparation]
2023 Legacies of Photographic Silver: Entangled Geologies, Histories and Lives
Chapter contribution to Re.source | The Sustainable Darkroom
2022 Reworking the Culture of Photography
This Is (Still) Not A Solution I The Sustainable Darkroom
Academic Presentations
Papers in Refereed Conferences
2025 Sustainable Photography? Institute of Photography, Falmouth Univeristy
2024 Legacies of Kodak Chemistry: Experimental Analogue Photography as Ethnographic Method
Panel: Doing and Redoing Anthropology with Photography: Dialogues, Collaborations, Hybridisations
European Association of Social Anthroplogy, Barcelona
2024 (Un) Doing Relationships with Ethnographic Material and ‘Fieldnotes’, European Association of Social Anthroplogy,
Barcelona
This lab explored experimental ways of being in ethnographic spaces. Using hands-on, transdisciplinary methods including camera-less photography and foraging, it explored how non-representational experimental photography could rework methods of constructing, experiencing, and tracing ethnographic spaces.
2023 Photographic Extractivism, Photography In Its Environment, Photographic History Research Centre, DeMontfort University, UK
Lecture Series
2023 Image, Empire & Ecology
Lecture series unpicking the geopolitics of photographic metals; examining links between colonialism & Western environmental discourses, building more reflective research practices in ecologically-minded photography
Sustainable Darkroom Slow Photography Series (online)
Selected Academic Event Co-ordination
2024 Designing, Planting and Sourcing a Photographic Garden, the first of its kind in the United States, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
This project designed and planted the United States’ first photographic garden, in collaboration with MFA Photography students. This is a garden space that grows plants to use as darkroom resources to generate plan based photo-chemistries and plant species that remediate heavy metals from darkroom grey waters.
2020 Experiencing Landscapes through Anthropology & Experimental Photography Symposium
Speakers: Dr. Flora Mary Bartlett [Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society], and photographic artist Ramona Güntert