Larry Fink has 30,000 prints in his archive and claims to have taken millions of photographs.

To this he says, “What the fuck am I doing?”

Born to marxist revolutionaries, Fink began his photographic career documenting the inevitable collapse of the capitalist state.

“I mean, we were delusional!”

No longer waiting for that inevitability, Fink has spent over 40 years documenting jazz musicians, wealthy manhattanites, his neighbors, fashion models, the celebrity elite and even the praying mantis in his backyard. His archive is a beautiful, thoughtful collection of American history, and Fink’s experience inside of it.

He values the power of coincidence in his photography and is known for the way he uses strobe to elucidate states of merger between himself and his subjects. He values his job as a teacher, something to which he says is more important than his career as a photographer. And he values his family, and their ability to find happiness and fulfillment.

After nearly a half century of work in photography, Fink’s energy and passion for art and life continue with much the same energy that’s driven him since he was a young man growing up in Brooklyn.

“I’m too busy with the business of trying to live my life with deeper purpose in a way.

I’m trying to redefine it in a way, trying to figure out what do as an artist, how to make it real.

I’m hoping that my wife is happy, I’m hoping that my daughter is fulfilled, I’m hoping for simpler things than I use to.”   

Larry Fink has had a prolific career. He’s taken millions of photographs, and has made nearly 30,000 prints, which sit in his archive. With so much work accomplished over the last 40 years, the film needed to be precise about what work of Fink’s would all together give an insight into the mind of the artist.

It was important to choose the right bodies of work to cover which together might allow Fink to be thoughtful and concise about his general photographic practice.

Editor and producer, Tim McLaughlin, went through Fink’s substantial photographic archive and determined a few select bodies of work. These projects, together, were connected in their subject matter, yet unique enough to warrant individual examination.

The films were shown on April 30, 2015 at the 2015 International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards in New York and launched online on May 1, 2015.

This film was a collaboration with Harbers Studio and the International Center of Photography.

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