Light Work Annual 2012: Shane Lavalette

Will with Banjo, 2011, Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette’s pictures are visually straightforward, obsessively clear, and devoted to the metaphysical idea that direct observation can be beamed through a lens to a viewer. They are quiet pictures that build to a boisterous whole. They speak from the endlessly renewed place of the photographic expeditioner who loves the world and knows it’s a well that never runs dry.

– Tim Davis, photographer, video artist, writer, and musician

Read the rest of the essay in Contact Sheet 167: The Light Work Annual 2012.

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