Alice Pallot
About Alice Pallot
Alice Pallot (FR, 1995) lives and works between Paris and Brussels (FR/BE).
She studied photography at ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels, BE), where she earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with honors in 2018. That same year, she received the Roger De Conynck Prize.
What makes her work stand out is the way she uses and plays with scales and textures, both in the format of her images and in the shots themselves. From very large formats to more discreet ones, all with shimmering, contrasting colours and sometimes close to monochrome, it immerses us completely in visual spaces she has managed to create.
Photographic approach of Alice Pallot
Alice Pallot is an artist photographer, she explores the impact of human activity on the environment. Infused with a sci-fi imaginary, her work reveals often-hidden ecological issues.
She conducts speculative investigations of the territories she explores, working alongside scientists and environmental activists. Through her lens, she questions the near future by capturing the materiality of the present. By integrating scientific data collected during her research, Alice develops a unique visual language.
Through expeditions, experiments, and field research, she examines the relationship between human-developed science and its impact on our ever-changing natural environment. In doing so, she raises questions and ambiguities that are deeply rooted in our times.
Playing with perception and the shifting scales made possible by scientific tools, Alice Pallot creates unretouched images. She collects debris from the places she investigates and repurposes them as photographic filters.
Her work offers an immersive experience of the polluted natural world—a reflection of the wounded beauty of our planet, scarred by the Anthropocene era.
Exhibitions and Residencies
Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across Europe.
In 2022, she took part in the 1+2 Residency, which fosters dialogue between photography and science. There, she developed Algues maudites, a sea of tears with CNRS Occitanie-Ouest.
In 2023 and 2024, she presented this project in 25 exhibitions across Europe, including Les Rencontres d’Arles (La Nuit de l’Année), the PhotoClimat Biennale, and Science/Fiction. A Non-History of Plants at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
In April 2024, she was awarded the Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale prize at Villa Perochon and the New Writings in Environmental Photography award by La Gacilly and Leica. In November, all three chapters of Algues maudites were shown at Leica Gallery Paris with the European Space Agency. The third chapter was also presented at Paris Photo in a solo show with Hangar Gallery in the Emerging Sector.
In 2024–2025, Alice Pallot received a CNAP project grant to develop Là-haut. She is also one of the winners of the CNRS Photography and Science competition, which will take her to Morocco’s largest cedar forest to follow monkeys, an indicator species for forest health.
Over the years, she has taken part in several exhibitions at Hangar: The World Within / Photo Brussels Festival (2021), Echoes of Tomorrow (2023), Apparitions (2024) & Unique - Beyond Photography (2024).
Art Book publications by Alice Pallot
Alongside her exhibitions, Alice Pallot has published several books: Land (2016), Himero (2020), Suillus (2021, reprinted in 2022), Algues maudites, a sea of tears (Area Books, 2023), and Red Bloom (The Eyes Publishing, 2024).
Alice Pallot’s art books, as well as her exhibitions, give an insight to an atypical vision of storytelling related to our time.
