Stephen Mallon"Weeks 297" Sea Train, Subway Reef Photograph by Stephen Mallon 20"x30" (framed), 2008
"Weeks 297" Sea Train, Subway Reef Photograph by Stephen Mallon 20"x30" (framed)
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
C-Print Photograph, edition #4 of 5 - 20"x30" framed $3850USD This is limited edition photograph #4/5 is mounted and framed in a hard wood, handcrafted shadowbox frame with spacers and wooden strainer. This is a limited edition photograph of 5, signed and editioned by the artist. This photograph documents the creation of artificial reefs along the Atlantic Coast. Stacks of New York City subway cars sit atop a barge at sea. The blue-grey water, shows a white wave cresting in foreground with the lines of subway train cars stacked on top of each other center of the composition. This unusual recycling program created artificial reefs along United States East Coast utilizing the decommissioned NYC subway cars. Stephen Mallon's photograph's "Sea Train Subway Reef Photos by Stephen Mallon" are currently on view at New York Transit Museum Grand Central Gallery From 2001 to 2010, the MTA, which runs the city’s subways, re-purposed thousands of decommissioned subway cars by submerging them into the ocean off eastern seaboard states such as New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina. There, the urban relics become artificial reefs, providing safe habitats for marine life. Photographer Stephen Mallon spent two years documenting the project, and his images are now on view at the New York Transit Museum‘s Grand Central Terminal Annex in a new exhibition. In a bold move, the NYC Transit...
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
C Print
