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
Photographic artist & doctoral researcher examining links between photographic metals, colonialism and ecological crises. Creating an alternative archive of film photography’s history that foregrounds social and ecological impacts of the industry. Reimagining ecological futures of photography through the use of hand-mixed, plant-based photo-chemistries. Based between London and New York.
Positions include: 2025-26 Ansel Adams Fellow (Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona); 2024 artist-in-residence (Hong Kong International Photo Festival); visiting scholar at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York; 2023 TRACTS Fellow (Leiden University); 2022 artist-in-residence (Silver City, Nevada U.S.A). Advisor to the Sustainable Darkroom, a charity researching lower-toxicity photographic methods.
Exhibited internationally, including Centre for Creative Photography (Finland), Saatchi (London), BWA Gallery (Poland), London Art Fair, Pointsman (Hong Kong), Halide Project (Philadelphia) and Chappe Contemporary Art Museum (Finland). Published in renowned journals including The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, New York Times, as well as PLANT: Exploring the Botanical World (Phaidon Press).
Conference papers include presentations at the Photographic Histories Research Centre (UK), EASA (Barcelona) and Polar Film Lab (upcoming, Norway). PhD research publications include Landscape Memories, Archival Ecologies (TRAJECTORIA, Japan), and book chapter contributions to Ecologies of Photography (upcoming, Leuven Press) and Counter Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines (upcoming, De Gruyter).
Still photographs from I AM A DARKROOM experimental documentary featuring Sustainable Darkroom artists