A Documentary Short Film

FINK turns its lens on the man himself and explores the mind, the poetry, the sensitivity and the politics that have driven this legendary fine art photographer from the moment he first picked up a camera. The film seeks to uncover the essence of Larry Fink the artist; how his particular world vision during the era that shaped him also shaped his art - exploring how and why he shot what he did, and taking us beyond the moments captured on film.

Photographer Larry Fink recounts his extraordinary life, and revisits his archives -- a collection of over 60,000 photos spanning from the 1950's to today.

Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking
Photographs by Larry Fink
Essays by Ash & Graydon Carter, Lucy Sante, Yolanda Cuomo, Stephen Shore, and Daniel Power
Text contributions by Larry Fink + Martha Posner
Published by PowerHouse
Hardcover | Trim Size: 11 x 12.5 | Page Count: 424

Lisa Schiller (Director)
Lisa Schiller has been writing for film and television with comedic snark having started on the cult hit WONDER SHOWZEN, and doing time for COMEDY CENTRAL. She ventured into features, writing and producing Alfrie Woodard and Gbenga Akinnagbe in KNUCKLEHEAD – She then dove into documentary writing the critically acclaimed documentary THE LONELIEST WHALE: THE SEARCH FOR 52 executive producer Leonardo Dicaprio and distributed by Bleecker Street Media. Last year she produced the documentary short DAVID AGAIN, which premiered at Tribeca 2024. She spends her downtime making music videos and producing documentary content. Most recently she completed a short documentary FINK on the infamous photographer Larry Fink – excerpt available on NOWNESS. Meanwhile, she continues to write and direct as her passion for storytelling has officially crushed her pro football dreams.

Kareem Atallah (Cinematographer)
Kareem is an avid world traveler and bi-coastal filmmaker from New York. With a focus ranging from narrative films to commercial work and music videos, Kareem prides himself on an efficient process that starts at pre-production and doesn't finish until distribution. Starting KAREEM WAS HERE LLC in 2018 has steered him into countless commercial, documentary, and music video jobs. His first feature, THE GREATEST is due to release in 2023.

Nicco Quinto (Cinematographer & Executive Producer)
Nicco Quinto is a producer, cinematographer, and remotes specialist with 15 years’ experience in every aspect of live, pre-recorded, scripted, and non-scripted production.  Nicco has shot hundreds of hours of episodic fiction and non-fiction film/television including Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Power, and Dirty Money.  His first feature documentary Charlie’s Records, directed by Tina Charles, showcased at the Tribeca Film Festival, as did his first documentary short Game Changer, also directed by Tina Charles. He is currently producing his first live-broadcast television show.

Deborah Hrbek (Executive Producer)
Media lawyer Deborah Hrbek from Manhattan-based entertainment law firm Hrbek Law LLC represents Oscar-winning film production team John Canemaker & Peggy Stern (The Moon and The Son), Laura Israel (Don't Blink - Robert Frank, Windfall), WNBA star and filmmaker Tina Charles (GameChanger, Charlie's Records), the Chapo Traphouse podcast team (including TV writers Amber A'Lee Frost and Felix Biederman), and Off Center Media (Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America; Disturbing the Universe). Hrbek's client, Darryl Kelly, famously enjoyed a prolonged 15-minutes of fame when he rescued the photo-archive legacy of photographer Harry Shunk from Westbeth, spawning an NYC art world media frenzy and two documentary film projects - Harry's Gift by Alexandra Isles, and SHUNK by Lisa Schiller. The firm also represents a number of fine art photographers - including Larry Fink!

Martha Posner is a painter and sculptor who lives and works on a farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. She has had solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad at Centro Cultural de Coperación, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Heidi Cho Gallery, New York City; The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey; Albright College Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania; The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, among others.  Her work is held by numerous private and public collections including The George Gund Foundation, The Allentown Art Museum, The Butler Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and the Great Northern Corporate Center, Cleveland, Ohio. A retrospective of her work titled Brutal Beauty was exhibited in 2020 at the Sordoni Art Gallery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her current exhibition, Flesh and Bone, along with her late husband Larry Fink, is currently on view at the Sarasota Art Museum through April, 2025.