CV

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 three 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, USA

2022 
ÖRES
Örö island, Finland

2021 
Test | Grow | Learn | Test
Guest Projects, UK

2020 Recycle | Remove | Repurpose | Rework
London Alternative Photography Collective
UK

2017 
Lumen
London Alternative Photography Collective
Italy



Exhibitions & Media Work


Curatorial Projects

2024 
Guest curator for Guest Room, Der Greif
Co-curated with Hannah Fletcher [Sustainable Darkroom] & Tamsin Green [Sustainable Photobook Publishing]

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]


Contributions to Group Shows

2024 
(is)land
Metamorphosis: Innovations in Eco Photography and Film | Saatchi
London, UK
In collaboration with Hannah Fletcher

2024 
Desert Treasure
MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction? | University of Delaware, USA

2024 
Breathe
Living Image | Halide Project
Philadelphia, USA

2024 
And Still The Earth Spins
Opaque Shattering, Truth Awakens | Pointsman Gallery 
Hong Kong

2024 
Legacy: The City That Kodak Built
displace/disperse | Agitate Gallery
Edinburgh, UK

2024 
(is)land
Grafting: The Land and the Artist | Photo 50
London Art Fair, UK

2023 
[de]compose
Climate & Art: Alternative Approaches | Chappe contemporary art museum
Finland

2023 
Silverscapes
Beyond Silver | Hive Gallery
Birmingham, UK

2022 
Desert Treasures
Silver City Artist Residency Programme
Nevada, USA

2022 
Breathe
Fabric of Photography: Material Matters | Photo Oxford 
UK

2022 
Here Many Worlds Collide
WHAT ON EARTH? | Koppel Project
London, UK

2021 
Made By Many Hands: A Botanic Photo Lab 
TERRA NEXUS | Proposition Studios 
London, UK



Reviews of Visual Projects 

[In preparation] 
Feature of photographic series Legacy: The City That Kodak Built
To be published in A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, Henning, M. University of Chicago Press. 
Expected publication 2025

[In preparation]
Feature of photographic series Desert Treasure
To be published in Routledge Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology. Rupert Cox, R. & Chris Wright (eds.) London and New York; Routledge. 2025

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 and Tyrone Lebon

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

2021-22 
MA Visual Communication | Canterbury Christ Church University 

Associate lecturer and module lead in Critical Thinking and Project Development modules
Lecture series: Ecology & Image: Critical perspectives; Conflict & Colonialism; Imaging & Imagining: Beyond Representation

Undergraduate Degree Teaching

2024
Guest lecturer in visual anthropology | Goldsmiths, University of London

Lecture Series

2024 
Between Aperture and Earth: Ecological Futures in Photography
Instructing MFA Photography students as the visiting lecturer in Art & Sustainability | Rochester institute of Technology, New York

2024 
Toxic Legacies: Researching and Managing Waste in Photography | SET Studios, London
The Sustainable Darkroom

2023 
Image, Empire & Ecology
Lecture focus: 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)

Photography Workshops

2024 
Developing film & pinhole photography with plant photo-chemistry
Chlorophyll printing
Festival de Fotografia Analogica | Chamusca, Portugal

2024 
Sustainable Darkroom Annual Workshop Week | SET studios, London

2024 
Photo walk & collective film processing with plant photo-chemistry
Chemigram with plant photo-chemistry | Hong Kong International Photo Festival 

2023 
Sustainable Darkroom Workshop Week | Intrepid studios, Brighton, UK

2023 
Sustainable Thinking, Practice & Waste Management in Photography | Penumbra Foundation, New York

2023
Animated Ecologies: Media Materiality & the Anthropocene; Chlorophyll printing | New York University

2023 
Pinhole photography with plant photo-chemistry | New York University, Abu Dhabi

2022
Phytogram with plant photo-chemistry | V&A london

2022 
Chemigram with plant photo-chemistry | Photo Oxford, UK

2022 
Sustainable Darkroom Workshop Week | East Street Arts, Leeds, UK




Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles 

2024 
Parallel Archives: Photographic Silver and its Landscapes
Contribution to Vol. 6 Special Issue: Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies
Trajectoria | Anthropology, Museums & Art
Under review, expected publication Spring 2025

Photography Publications

2024 
Media. Earth. Minerals
Contribution to Fracture | Ecology. Time. Humanity
14th issue
The Eyes Publishing

Book Contributions

2023 
Legacies of Photographic Silver: Entangled Geologies, Histories and Lives
Chapter contribution to Re.source | The Sustainable Darkroom

2022 
Reworking the Culture of Photography
Essay contribution to This Is (Still) Not A Solution I The Sustainable Darkroom




Academic Presentations

Papers in Refereed Conferences

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.

Co-directed with Sara Ramadahita and Anna Rohmann, Goldsmiths, University of London

2023 
Photographic Extractivism
Photography In Its Environment
Photographic History Research Centre, DeMontfort University, UK

Invited Lectures

2024
Legacy: The City That Kodak Built
VSW Salon , Visual Studies Workshop | Rochester, New York

2024 
Guest reviewer for Material Narratives of Photographic Image-making
Media Studies | Royal College of Art

2024 
Between Aperture and Earth: Ecological Futures in Photography
Visiting lecturer in Art & Sustainability | Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

2022 
Media Materiality and Critical Ecologies
Experimental Photo Festival | Barcelona

2022 
Legacies of Photographic Silver
Photofusion, London





Selected Academic Event Co-ordination 

2024 Designing, Planting and Sourcing a Photographic Garden
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York

This project designed and planted the United states first photographic garden. this is a garden space that grows plants useful as darkroom resources, to generate plant-based photo-chemistries and plant species that remediate heavy metals from darkroom grey waters.

2020 
Experiencing Landscapes through Anthropology & Experimental Photography Symposium
Speakers included Dr. Flora Mary Bartlett [Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society], and photographic artist Ramona Güntert