Joseph Malham

Joseph Malham is the author of Searcher: The Artistic Vision of John Ford.An iconographer as well as a writer, Malham is of Greek and Assyrian descent and has devoted a decade of his life to the pursuit of iconography, a sacred and ancient form of art. He credits his Near East and Mediterranean heritage with his love of sacred art and iconography in particular. His studio is situated in a church on the north side of Chicago. Malham studied art in Rome through Loyola University’s Rome Center and graduated with a BA in History from that same institution. Since 1999 Malham has been artist-in-residence at St. Gregory the Great Church in Chicago. His panels and icon banners, a meld of traditional Byzantine/Russian images and his own unique style, have been acquired by churches, institutions and individuals around the country.

Malham’s first book, By Fire into Light: Four Catholic Martyrs of the Nazi Camps (Peeters-Leuven 2002), tells the moving stories of four heroic figures who transcended the horrors of the Holocaust through their experiences of faith. Visit Joe Malham’s online studio at www.TrinityIcons.com.