CV — Alice Cazenave

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, 3 year grant

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, 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 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

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

2026 Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Arts & Sciences | University College London

2024 Guest lecturer in Visual Anthropology | Goldsmiths, University of London

2024 Guest reviewer, 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 Chemical Histories of Photography Symposium, Eikones, Basel, Switzerland. Organised by Katerina Korola

2025 The Silver Record, Polar Film Lab, Norway
In collaboration with Photo North (Finland), Labor Berlin, Light Cone (France) & Videokunstarkivet (Norway)

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

2026 Visual Anthropology Review [photo essay in preparation]

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
[book chapter in preparation]

2025 Counter Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines
De Gruyter [photo-essay 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 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, U.S.

2025 Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis
The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia

2025 A Line Drawn on Water: Adventures & Exchanges at the Art-Academia Interface
Helsinki Research Pavilion, Finland.

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 (EASA), Barcelona

2024 (Un) Doing Relationships with Ethnographic Material and ‘Fieldnotes’, EASA, Barcelona

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 discourse
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. In collaboration with MFA Photography students.

This is a garden space growing species used for plant-based photo-chemistries 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 art Ramona Güntert