Luis Mallo | Passengers | Photography | CANY Online Gallery

Luis Mallo, Cuban-American photographer.  We are offering 3 works from the Passenger Series completed in 1999 of seated NYC subway riders while in transit. The result is a series of contemporary portraits of urban individuals each extracted from their surroundings and then anonymously placed within a collective and uniform arrangement.  We are offering this work as a triptych. The works were donated to CANY from a private collection. Luis Mallo is represented by galleries in NYC. The images are 9" x 6". Luis Mallo was born in Havana, Cuba. He studied graphic design in New York City, but his immediate interest became photography. His work has been shown around the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe. He is a recipient of the Cintas Foundation Award and The Art Matters Photography Award. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House, the Worcester Museum of Art, the Museum of Art at Fort Lauderdale and the New York Public Library, as well as other public and private collections.  Sold as 1 Unit.