Shane Lavalette (born 1987) is an American photographer.

Life and work

Lavalette was born in Burlington, Vermont. He studied photography at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

and the

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusett ...

, where he received a BFA in 2009. In 2010, Lavalette was commissioned by the

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in Atlanta to contribute to their ''Picturing the South'' series, His work was exhibited there in 2012 and received media coverage from ''

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.'' His book ''One Sun, One Shadow'' is an extension of this body of work. In 2011, Lavalette was hired as the associate director of

Light Work Light Work is a photography center in Syracuse, New York. The artist-run nonprofit supports photographers through a community-access digital lab facility, residencies, exhibitions, and publications. History The organization is housed at Syra ...

, a non-profit photography organization in Syracuse, New York. He was appointed director two years later, in 2013. At Light Work, Lavalette oversees the organization's Artist-in-Residence Program, exhibitions, and publication of ''Contact Sheet'', a photography journal. In 2017, Lavalette was commissioned by Fotostiftung Schwiz to follow the footsteps of the Swiss photographer Theo Frey to investigate the same villages Frey documented in 1939 for the Swiss National Exhibition (Schweizerische Landesausstellung); Carona, Gais, Ruderswill, Saignelegier, Saint-Saphorin, Sainte-Croix, Schwyz, Stammheim, Vicosoprano, Visperterminen, Wil and Zuoz that resulted in the book ''Still (Noon)'', published by Patrick Frey in 2018.

Publications

Publications by Lavalette

*''One Sun, One Shadow.'' Self-published, 2016. With a text by Tim Davis. Edition of 1500 copies. . *''Still (Noon).'' Patrick Frey, 2018. Edition of 1000 copies. .

Publications with contribution by Lavalette

*''reGeneration2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today.'' London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. . *''Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays.'' Chapel Hill, NC: Daylight, 2012. By Will Steacy. Second revised edition. . With an introduction by Lyle Rexer. *''Unfamiliar Familiarities—Outside Views on Switzerland.'' Zürich: Lars Müller, 2017. Edited by Peter Pfrunder, Lars Willumeit, and Tatyana Franck. . A six-volume set: one volume by Lavalette and the others by Alinka Echeverría, Eva Leitolf, Simon Roberts, and Zhang Xiao, plus a text volume in English, German, and French. Published to accompany an exhibition at Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland and

Musée de l'Élysée Musée de l'Élysée is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.

, Lausanne, Switzerland. *''LOST II (LOST, Syracuse)''. New York: Kris Graves Projects, 2019. Includes a poem by

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and a text by Arthur Flowers.

Awards

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Prize in Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009 * Focus Award: Rising Star, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2013 *Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2019.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lavalette, Shane 1987 births Living people American photographers Artists from Burlington, Vermont Artists from Syracuse, New York Tufts University alumni School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni