I am Ed Malcik, a photographer of the street and urban environment, now living in Austin, Texas. I studied photojournalism at the University of Texas, and worked as a staff photographer at Texas newspapers, including five years at the Austin American-Statesman. I also did freelance work for major publications, including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Us, and Texas Monthly, and the wire services AP and UPI. I am a longtime member of the National Press Photographers Association.
Ed Malcik 2013 self portrait shot in a bar mirror on Rue Mouftard in Paris using a beer glass as a camera support. That is Jim Morrison on the wall.
In 1980 I changed to an international career, first as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in The Gambia, and then as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, working in consulates and embassies all over the world. In 2010 I returned to photography, shooting extensively in Paris, Chennai, New York, and now Austin, all of which have galleries in this webpage. My subjects are cities.
My work is in a documentary style, showing the urban environment from the street, often incorporating signs and street art, the grand and the banal. I show what a city looks like, and that often means scenes without people: In the theater of city streets I am as interested in the stage as the actors. My style is not conceptual: I find pictures; I don't make them. Some of my photographic influences include Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Martin Parr, and Walker Evans. I am working in long-form photographic projects—books and gallery exhibitions—and I am looking for publishers and galleries.
Recent exhibitions:
2011, 2012, 2013—Group exhibitions, U.S. Embassy, Paris.
2015—Group exhibition juried by Sarah Greenough of the National Gallery of Art, Multiple Exposures Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
2015—Texas Photographic Society group exhibition juried by Keith Carter, TCC Gallery, Longview, Texas.
2018—One-person show “Selling the Alamo” at Mockingbird Handprints, San Antonio.