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Contact: cazenave.media@gmail.com | @alice_cazenave_
Education
2025
2024
2019
2015
2012
PhD Visual Anthropology Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Blue Mud: Entangled Geologies & Lives of Photographic Silver in the United States’
MRes Visual Anthropology Goldsmiths, University of London
MA Social Anthropology, SOAS
MA Art & Science
Central Saint Martins School of Art University Arts London
BSc Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
University of Bristol
Artist Residencies
2024
2022
2022
2021
2020
Hong Kong International Photo FestivaL x Koon Man Space, Hong Kong
Silver City Artist Residence Programme, Nevada, United States
ÖRES, Örö island, Finland
Test | Grow | Learn | Test, Guest Projects, UK
Recycle | Remove | Repurpose | Rework, London Alternative Photography Collective, UK
Fellowships & Honours
2026
2024
2022
2019
2015
Ansel Adams Research Fellow, Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
TRACTS Fellow, Leiden University, Netherlands
Arts & Humanities Research Council Doctoral Scholarship, UK
Outstanding Scholar Award, Social Anthropology, SOAS
MullenLowe NOVA Award, Shortlist
Exhibitions & Media Work
Curatorial Projects
2024
2024
2024
Guest co-curator for Guest Room, Der Greif
The Active Image: Political Ecology & Photographic Agency,Create Gallery, Bristol, UK
Co-curated with Hannah Fletcher & Sophie Sherwood
FORAGE: Towards Ecological Futures in Photography, Cass Gallery, New York
Co-curated with Nathan Ely
Selected Group Shows
2025
2025
2024
2024
2024
2024
2024
2023
2023
2022
2022
2022
2021
My Work Here Is Done
Centre for Creative Photography, Finland
A Touch Of Nature
BWA Gallery, Poland
Metamorphosis: Innovations in Eco- Photography and Film
Saatchi, London, UK
In collaboration with Hannah Fletcher
MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction?
University of Delaware, USA
Living Image
Halide Project, Philadelphia, Unites States
Opaque Shattering, Truth Awakens, Pointsman Gallery, Hong Kong
Displace/Disperse
Agitate Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Climate & Art: Alternative Approaches
Chappe Contemporary Art Museum, Finland
Beyond Silver
Hive Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Desert Treasure
Silver City, Nevada, United States
Fabric of Photography: Material Matters
Photo Oxford, UK
WHAT ON EARTH?
Koppel Project, London, UK
TERRA NEXUS
Proposition Studios, London, UK
Reviews and Features
2025
2025
2025
2024
2024
2016
2015
2015
2015
Legacy: The City That Kodak Built
in Henning, M. A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire, University of Chicago Press
Desert Treasure
in Rupert Cox, R. & Chris Wright (eds.), Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropolgy, Routledge
Artist interview
MPB Meets Alice Cazenave: The Darkroom Innovator Making Film Photography Eco-Friendly Photography
Photo 50
Grafting: The Land and the Artist Exhibition review,
1000 words magazine
Feature in experimental film documentary I AM A DARKROOM by artist Edd Carr, produced by DeBeDo Projects
Photographic series feature in Plant: Exploring the Botanical World, Phaidon Press
Artist interview
How Photography Is Just Like Photosynthesis
The British Journal of Photography
Artist interview
Delicate, Magical Portraits of Plants’ Inner Lives
The New York Times Style Magazine
Artist interview
My Best Shot
The Guardian
Teaching Experience
Postgraduate Degree Teaching
2026
2024
2022
Lecturer in Visual Anthroplogy/ Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
Guest reviewer
Media Studies
Royal College of Art
Associate Lecturer in Visual Communication
Canterbury Christ Church University
Undergraduate Degree Teaching
2026
2024
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Arts & Sciences
University College London
Guest lecturer in Visual Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London
Invited Lectures
2026
2025
2025
2024
2022
2019
Centre for Creative Photography Univesity of Arizona
Keynote: Chemical Histories of Photography Symposium
Eikones, Switzerland
The Silver Record
Polar Film Lab, Norway
Visual Studies Workshop, New York
Experimental Photo Festival Barcelona, Spain
The Science Museum, London
Photography Workshops
2024
2024
2024
2023
2023
2023
2022
2022
Festival de Fotografia Analogica, Chamusca, Portugal
Sustainable Darkroom Annual Workshop Week
London, UK
Hong Kong International Photo Festival
Sustainable Darkroom Workshop Week
Brighton, UK
Penumbra Foundation
New York
Animated Ecologies,
New York University
V&A London
UK
Photo Oxford, UK
Publications
Journal Articles
2026
2025
Forthcoming, Visual Anthropology Review
Parallel Archives: Photographic Silver and its Landscapes
Trajectoria: Anthropology, Museums & Art
Photography Publications
2024Media . Earth . Minerals
Fracture: Ecology, Time, Humanity, 14th issue
The Eyes Publishing
Book Contributions
2026
2026
2023
2022
Forthcoming, Ecologies of Photography
Lueven University Press
Forthcoming, Counter Cartographies of Trace: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Approaches Across Disciplines
De Gruyter
Legacies of Photographic Silver: Entangled Geologies, Histories & Lives
Re.source,
The Sustainable Darkroom
Reworking the Culture of Photography
This Is (Still) Not A Solution
The Sustainable Darkroom
Academic Presentations
Papers in Refereed Conferences
2026
2025
2025
2025
2024
2024
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Poznan, Poland
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
New Orleans, United States
The New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
A Line Drawn on Water: Adventures & Exchanges at the Art-Academia Interface: Helsinki Research Pavilion, Finland
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Barcelona, Spain
Photographic History Research Centre Annual Meeting
DeMontfort University, UK
Lecture Series
2023Image, Empire & Ecology
Sustainable Darkroom Slow Photography Series
Selected Academic Event Co-ordination
2026
2024
2020
Volatile Worlds: Image, Ecology & Extraction
Goldsmiths, University of London
Designing, Planting and Sourcing a Photographic Garden
Rochester Institute of Technology
New York
Experiencing Landscapes through Anthropology & Experimental Photography Symposium
Sustainable Darkroom