"In the southern states of the USA, the artist decided to walk in a variety of neighborhoods, looking for visual flashes that would pulsate with rhythm and feeling of local music. Avoiding the paths of ethnomusicologists and photojournalists, the photographer avoided what one of the blues' first mothers, Ma Rainey, once said: "White people hear the blues coming, but they don't know where exactly it is coming from."
Instead of picking flowers, Mr Lavalette tores all the roots, becoming himself a stubborn hunter of analogies, allusions and periphrases. "One Sun, One Shadow" is not a historical picture of southern music, the basis of this photographic storytelling is the reflection of the world's immersive traditions in never-ending visual fragments and caught in the "rattling" of this particular phenomenon in the work of the photographer.
Project about the project: Ms Lavalette offers meaning to the music of the southern states without giving accurate information, only traveling through "minor" genres – portraits, landscapes, still life images. By traveling and allowing the project itself to create meaning along the way, rather than setting out the thesis and lining its subsections. Shane Lavalette's photos are direct, even obsessively clear; they are based on the metaphysical idea that it is possible to broadcast a brutally open observation through the lens to the viewer. Silent photographs made by the artist merge into a loud wholeness. The home of these works of art is the world of a constantly travelling photographer, who, as the author himself demonstrates, is like an inexhaustible well."
Tim Davis
