When Swiss Fotostiftung in Winterthur and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne approached young American photographer Shane Lavalette to contribute work to a group show titled "Unfamiliar Familiarities. Outside Views on Switzerland" in 2016, Lavalette started to research in the Winterthur archives. He came across contact sheets of a reportage by Theo Frey. Swiss photographer Theo Frey (1908-1997) was a photo journalist and a documentarist. For the 1939 Swiss N…

For years the High Museum in Atlanta has asked well known photographers to work on the American South. The series of exhibitions is called "Picturing the South" and following artists such as Sally Mann, Martin Parr and Alec Soth, in 2012 the museum commissioned Shane Lavalette. As a photographer, a publisher and as the director of Light Work Institute in Syracuse, NY, Shane Lavalette (born 1987) is one of the most distinguished young voices in contemporary photography coming out of t…