Bio
Alice Cazenave, Ph.D is an artist-researcher whose practice examines links between photographic metals, colonialism and ecological crises. She is creating an alternative archive of photography’s history that foregrounds links between silver, film industries, and chemical violence. She reimagines ecological futures of photography through the use of hand-mixed, plant-based photo-chemistries.
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
Advisor to the Sustainable Darkroom, a charity researching lower-toxicity photographic methods.
Alice has exhibited internationally at institutions 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). She has been published in journals including The British Journal of Photography, 1000 words magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, and PLANT: Exploring the Botanical World (Phaidon Press).
She has presented research internationally at institutions including Eikones (Switzerland), the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (United States), Photographic Histories Research Centre (UK), EASA (Barcelona) and Polar Film Lab (Norway).
Elements of her
PhD (Goldsmiths, University of London) are published with TRAJECTORIA (Japan), Leuven Press (forthcoming book section), De Gruyter (forthcoming book section), and Visual Anthropology Review (photo essay).
Images courtesy of Edd Carr
Still photographs from I AM A DARKROOM experimental documentary featuring Sustainable Darkroom artists