Shane Lavalette

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.smfa.edu/alumni-web-sites |title=SMFA Boston |publisher=Smfa.edu |access-date=2013-12-13}}

In 2010, Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to contribute to their Picturing the South series,{{cite web |url=http://www.high.org/Press/Press-Releases/2011/December/High-Commissions-Three-New-Photographers-for-Picturing-the-South-Series.aspx |title=High Commissions Three New Photographers for "Picturing the South" Series |publisher=High.org |access-date=2013-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202041036/http://www.high.org/Press/Press-Releases/2011/December/High-Commissions-Three-New-Photographers-for-Picturing-the-South-Series.aspx |archive-date=2017-02-02 }} His work was exhibited there in 2012 and received media coverage from CNN,{{cite web|url=http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/photographer-captures-sounds-of-the-south/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425044404/http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/photographer-captures-sounds-of-the-south/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 25, 2012|title=Photographer captures sounds of the South – CNN Photos Blogs|work=CNN Photos Blogs |access-date=2013-12-13}} Time,{{cite web |url=http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/08/shane-lavalette/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610003508/http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/08/shane-lavalette/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 10, 2012 |title=Shane Lavalette: Musical Heritage in the New South - LightBox|publisher=Time |date=2012-06-08 |access-date=2013-12-13}} NPR,{{cite web|last=O'Neill |first=Claire|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/06/22/155360566/how-would-you-picture-the-south|title=How Would You 'Picture The South'? : The Picture Show |publisher=NPR |date=2012-06-22|access-date=2013-12-13}} and The New York Times.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/arts/design/picturing-the-south-photos-at-high-museum-in-atlanta.html | title=The South From Many Angles | work=The New York Times | date=June 21, 2012 | access-date=17 December 2013 | author=Kino, Carol}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.lightwork.org/news/light-work-moves-forward/ | title=Light Work Moves Forward | publisher=Light Work | date=16 May 2013 | access-date=18 December 2013}} At Light Work, Lavalette oversees the organization's Artist-in-Residence Program, exhibitions, and publication of Contact Sheet, a photography journal.{{cite web|author=Gregory Eddi Jones · Jun 06, 2013 |url=http://petapixel.com/2013/06/06/interview-with-shane-lavalette-the-new-director-of-light-work/ |title=Interview with Shane Lavalette, The New Director of Light Work |publisher=Petapixel.com |date=2013-06-06 |access-date=2013-12-13}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://photobookjournal.com/2019/09/05/shane-lavalette-still-noon/|title=Shane Lavalette – Still (Noon)|date=2019-09-05|website=PhotoBook Journal|language=en|access-date=2019-09-23}}

• One Sun, One Shadow. Self-published, 2016. With a text by Tim Davis. Edition of 1500 copies. {{ISBN|978-0-9842973-4-4}}.
• Still (Noon). Patrick Frey, 2018. Edition of 1000 copies. {{ISBN|978-3-906803-65-4}}.

• reGeneration2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. {{ISBN|9780500288894}}.
• Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers' Essays. Chapel Hill, NC: Daylight, 2012. By Will Steacy. Second revised edition. {{ISBN|978-0-983231-61-5}}. 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. {{ISBN|978-3-03778-510-2}}. 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, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.krisgravesprojects.com/store/lostii|title=LOST II - Full Set|website=+ KGP|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.krisgravesprojects.com/store/syracuse|title=Syracuse by Shane Lavalette|website=+ KGP|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-19}}

• Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009{{cite web|url=http://smfa.edu/2009-karsh-prize-winners-announced |title=2009 Karsh Prize Winners Announced |publisher=Smfa.edu |date=2009-02-17 |access-date=2013-12-14}}
• Focus Award: Rising Star, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2013{{cite web|url=http://griffinmuseum.org/focus_awards.htm |title=Griffin Museum 8th Annual Focus Awards 10-19-2013 |publisher=Griffinmuseum.org |access-date=2013-12-13}}
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/pollock-krasner-foundation-awards-more-than-3-million-in-grants-79438|title=POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION AWARDS MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN GRANTS|date=April 17, 2019|work=ARTFORUM}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/04/17/pollock-krasner-foundation-grants-lee-krasner-award/|title=Pollock-Krasner Foundation Names Winners of $3 M. in Grants|date=April 17, 2019}}

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