Shane Lavalette

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Shane Lavalette
Born1987 (age 3536)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Photographer, Artist, Publisher
Website www.shanelavalette.com

Shane Lavalette (born 1987) is an American photographer.

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Life and work

Lavalette was born in Burlington, Vermont. He studied photography at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he received a BFA in 2009. [1]

In 2010, Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to contribute to their Picturing the South series, [2] His work was exhibited there in 2012 and received media coverage from CNN , [3] Time , [4] NPR , [5] and The New York Times. [6] 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. [7] At Light Work, Lavalette oversees the organization's Artist-in-Residence Program, exhibitions, and publication of Contact Sheet, a photography journal. [8]

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. [9]

Publications

Publications by Lavalette

Publications with contribution by Lavalette

Awards

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