Mark

Sink

Mark Sink started his career using a plastic toy camera, the soft focus and inconsistencies of which created beautifully romantic black-and-white pictures. Sink used this tool to capture portraits of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and many others during his time in New York City in the 1980s. Instead of using found photographs, Sink works from his personal archive, placing dots over the figures in his pictures. By remixing himself, he brings new life to images from the past.

Mark Sink, a photographer, curator, and teacher, has been making a living from fine art photography since 1978. He is well known for his imagery made with the toy plastic camera the Diana. Currently, also a reverse technology, he is producing collodion wet plate photographs. His personal work is in numerous museum collections as well as gallery solo and group shows in the US, South America, and Europe. He is currently represented by G. Ray Hawkins in CA. Robin Rice in NY, Paul Cava in Philadelphia, and Rule Gallery in Denver.

As a fine art photographer, he worked with and documented noted artists' lives and work, such as Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Rene Ricard. His curatorial photography projects are numerous. Critical acclaim with the Museum Of Contemporary Art/Denver photography exhibitions should be noted, where Mark was a co-founder and director from 1999-2000.

Courtesy of Mark Sink

Mark Sink was born in 1958 in Denver, Colorado, where he is also based today.