Award-winning US photographer Stephen Mallon has captured this series of pictures over three years to document the unusual methods that New York City uses to dispose of its subway cars.
With their working life complete, the subway cars are loaded onto barges and are taken out into the Atlantic Ocean.
There they are dropped into the water using construction equipment. Once settled on the sea floor they will gradually become covered in coral, forming artificial reefs.
All still images courtesy of Stephen Mallon and Front Room Gallery. Video via Youtube.
The image "Don't do this" will be featured along with other work by Mallon in the solo exhibition "Patterns of Interest" at NYU’s Kimmel Galleries from 6 February to 15 March.
About the photographer:
Mr Mallon has been working as a photographer for 20 years and has been holding solo exhibitions of his work around New York since 2003.
The above images are contained in a gallery on his website here.
He speaks frequently about his work and will be the speaker at a lecture on 12 February about his twenty years experience as a photographer, as well as his experience of photography in the industrial world, and balancing his work in the commercial and fine art markets.
