Shane Lavalette (born 1987) is an American photographer.

Life and work

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

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and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 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 '' CNN'', ''

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'', '' NPR'', and ''

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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, 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:

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, 2010. . *''Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays.'' Chapel Hill, NC:

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, 2012. By

Will Steacy Will Steacy (born 1980) is an American writer and photographer based in New York City. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Life and work Steacy "descended from five generations of newspaper men. Hi ...

. 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

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. . A six-volume set: one volume by Lavalette and the others by

Alinka Echeverría Alinka Echeverría (born 1981) is a Mexican-British visual anthropologist, artist, filmmaker, and broadcaster. She is best known for her work, ''The Road to Tepeyac'', which won the HSBC Prix Pour La Photographie in France in 2011 and has since ...

, 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

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, Lausanne, Switzerland. *''LOST II (LOST, Syracuse)''. New York: Kris Graves Projects, 2019. Includes a poem by Carrie Mae Weems and a text by Arthur Flowers.

Awards

* Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography,

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

References

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* {{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