Award-winning Photographer and Filmmaker visits Newark Academy

Award-winning photographer and filmmaker, Stephen Mallon, held a two-day residency for Newark Academy arts students on Thursday, September 12 and Friday, September 13. He is currently exhibiting a body of work titled, “Machines and Materials,” in the David Teiger ’47 Gallery for Studio Arts through October 24, 2024.

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.

The Teiger Gallery is located in the center of the Elizabeth B. McGraw Arts Center on the campus of Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. For more information about Newark Academy, visit www.newarka.edu. If you are interested in visiting the exhibit, please contact Gallery Director Elaine Brodie at ebrodie@newarka.edu.