He received his BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette's photographs have been exhibited widely, including recent exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette is the founding publisher and editor of Lay Flat, and is one of the presenters at Magenta’s Flash Forward Festival in Boston this June.