Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Stephen Mallon engages Newark Academy students in 2-day residency

 

Throughout the two days, Mallon held engaging discussions about the knowledge, process and philosophy behind his exhibit with film and photography students. “Machines and Materials” features photographic series of the industrial-scale creations of mankind at unusual moments of their lives. His work blurs the line between documentary and fine art, revealing the industrial landscape to be unnatural, desolate and functional, but also human, surprising and inspiring.

 

“I bounce back and forth, sometimes finding the human element within the machine, sometimes wanting to abstract the subject and hide the photographic elements,” he says. “Sometimes there is a figure to give a sense of scale.”

 

Mallon’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, The Times of London, and Vanity Fair. He has exhibited work throughout the country as well as internationally in England, Italy and the Czech Republic.