Entries by Shane Lavalette

SPE Conference in Philadelphia

During the first weekend in March over a thousand photography enthusiasts will gather in Philadelphia for the 47th SPE National Conference, “Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic […]

Lola Flash opens at Gordon Parks Gallery

The exhibition Flash in Retrospect, featuring work by 2008 Light Work Artist-in-Residence Lola Flash, opened on February 13 at Gordon Parks Gallery on the John Cardinal O’Connor campus of The […]

36th Annual Light Work Grants

For the 36th year running, Light Work has announced a call for entries for its Light Work Grants in Photography. These grants support photographers, critics, and photo-historians in Central New […]

Baghdadi Mem/Wars project in Dubai

Today we shipped out a box of prints headed for Dubai. It may be the farthest that any prints made in Community Darkrooms have ever traveled from Syracuse. The images […]

Portfolios for iPhone and iPad

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the fractionmag blog about photographers redoing their online portfolios to make them compatible for viewing on the iPhone and iPad. Definitely check […]

A great reminder

I met photographer Jamey Stillings recently in Los Angeles. At the end of our conversation about his Colorado River Bridge series, he gave me a really nice leave-behind: a 56-page […]

One more for 2010

We’ve had late-breaking confirmation this afternoon that Susan Worsham will also join us as a 2010 Artist-in-Residence. In her series Some Fox Trails in Virginia, Worsham evokes a Southern Gothic […]

2010 Light Work Artists-in-Residence

Congratulations to the 2010 Light Work Artists-in-Residence, who were selected from a pool of over 400 applicants. Thanks to all who submitted materials and showed patience throughout the process. We’re […]

Covering photography

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University’s Bird Library, which is right down the street from Light Work, contains an amazing 100,00 printed works and 2,000 archival collections. As […]