Alan McFetridge’s photographic studies bring together landscape, ecology, fire and public memory. Working through long-term field research, books, exhibitions and public projects, the work explores how communities live with climate change, ecological transformation and the changing role of fire in the early twenty-first century.
Ten Year Arc (2026)
Sensing Earth | Artist Residency (2026)
Residency Log 2025
Holland Park Artist Residency
Fire Clouds, Canada (2023)
Harvest (2022)
Fort McMurray Burn Scar (2022)
Fires of Innocence (2022)
Dormant Legacy of Fire in the British Landscape, 2022
Antiquity in the Pyrocene (2021-2023)
Pyrocumulonimbus Super Outbreak: Aftermath of the Black Summer Fires, Australia (2019–2020)
Carbon
Night of The Bull Spirit (2020)
Dust & Shadows, 2020
I Am Transforming. (2020)
Healing Flames - Fire as an Ally, Lutruwita/Tasmania. (2019)
Dead Reckoning
Skeleton Island
Synchronicity (2018 - 19)
The River Derwent and Hobart Town, Lutruwita (c1831- 2019)
Separated by Meters, Australia (2018)
On The Line (2017) - Short Film
On The Line (2016 -2017)
Fire North: Book One
Fault Line
Pyrograms
Cryograms
Lumsden Hotel, Southland, New Zealand
Motutapu
The Great Western Domestic
Future Strata
Balfron Tower, London, UK
Street Kids
Sunday Best (2015)
Selected Awards, Funding, Features, and Publications:
2024: Judge for the Environmental Category, Association of Photographers, U.K.
Solo Exhibition at Lauderdale House, London, U.K.
2023: Launch of the Centre of Ecological Philosophy and East London SuperLab, U.K.
2022: Songs of the Dead, published in Sophia Journal, University of Porto, Portugal
Finalist for the Marianne Brandt Award, Germany
Nominated for the Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year - Art and Science, Germany
5 Nominations for Prix Pictet: The global award for photography and sustainability
2019: Featured in The Guardian – After Fire
Book launch for On The Line, Australia
2016: Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary, worldwide