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
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 & Fellowships
2025-26
Ansel Adams Research Fellowship
Centre for Creative Photography
University of Arizona
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
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]
Group Shows
My Work Here Is Done | Centre for Creative Photography, Finland
a:yetíya' dágeha’ [We Should Help Her]
A Touch Of Nature | BWA Gallery, Poland
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
Henning, M. A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, University of Chicago Press.
Expected publication 2025
[In preparation]
Feature of photographic series Desert Treasure
Rupert Cox, R. & Chris Wright (eds.), Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology, London and New York; Routledge.
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 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
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
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
MFA Photography teaching 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 Online Series
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
2025
Parallel Archives: Photographic Silver and its Landscapes
Special Theme: Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies, Vol. 6
Trajectoria | Anthropology, Museums & Art
Photography Publications
2024
Media. Earth. Minerals
Contribution to Fracture | Ecology. Time. Humanity
14th issue
The Eyes Publishing
Book Contributions
[In preparation]
Chapter contribution to Ecologies of Photography, Lueven University Press
[In preparation]
Photo-essay contribution to Counter Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines, De Gruyter
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
2025
Sustainable Photography? Falmouth Univeristy x The Sustainable Darkroom
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
2025
Polar Film Lab, Norway
2024
Legacy: The City That Kodak Built
VSW Salon , Visual Studies Workshop | Rochester, New York
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
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. 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: Dr. Flora Mary Bartlett [Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society], and photographic artist Ramona Güntert