Stephen Mallon is a photographer and filmmaker who specializes in the industrial-scale creations of mankind at unusual moments of their lifecycles. Mallon’s 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.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail, MSNBC, The Atlantic, GQ, CBS, the London Times and Vanity Fair. Mallon has exhibited in Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, St. Louis, New York, as well is in England and Italy.
David Schonauer wrote in Pro Photo Daily, “Mallon’s word harkens back to the heroic industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White and Charles Sheeler, who glorified American steel and found art in its industrial muscle and smoke during the Great Depression.” Mallon has also been compared to photographers including Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Struthand, and Chris Jordan. Mallon lives in New York with his wife and daughter, where he has been a board member of the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers since 2002 and served as president from 2006 to 2009.