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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


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2024



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2023


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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

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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

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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


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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