Alice Cazenave
Bio
Selected works
Research commissions
Exhibitions
Publications
©2026 Alice Cazenave
Bio
Selected works
Research commissions
Exhibitions
Publications
©2026 Alice Cazenave
Bio
Alice Cazenave, Ph.D is an artist-researcher based in London. She works with photography to trace the material, ecological, and colonial legacies of media infrastructures.
Her current research examines links between photographic extractivism, toxic metals, and chemical violence in the United States. She forages for plants growing in polluted landscapes and transforms them into plant-based photo-chemistries. These are used to develop analogue photographs of landscapes touched by photographic extractivism and create an alternative archive of photography’s history.
Alice is the 2026 Ansel Adams Research Fellow (University of Arizona) and research advisor to the Sustainable Darkroom, an organisation developing low-toxicity photographic methods.
She has exhibited internationally at institutions including the 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). Her photographic work has been published in The British Journal of Photography, 1000 words magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, and PLANT: Exploring the Botanical World (Phaidon Press).
Alice has been invited to speak at institutions in the United States, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. Her research has been published with De Gruyter, Leuven Press, and Visual Anthropology Review. She is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and a member of their Centre for Visual Anthropology.
Images courtesy of Edd Carr
Still photographs from I AM A DARKROOM