Brian Finke Photography
American, b. 1976
Photographer Brian Finke's work is a visual culture commentary that focuses on authenticity and the absurdity of everyday life as well as the range of human behavior. A stylized documentarian and trained photojournalist, Finke’s honesty and intimacy in capturing subjects strikes at the core of contemporary life, with a uniquely American point of context and graphic sensibility.
Often by way of boundary-pushing subject matter, Finke challenges viewers to confront what is often right in front of them, with an almost surreal understanding of immediacy, time and place. From street photography to commercial portraiture to fashion editorials, his immersion in culture-at-large creates imagery deeply tied to the political and emotional undertones of the modern world.
A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Finke received a BFA in photography. He is the author of several books, and his first monograph, 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players (Umbrage Editions, 2003), was named one of the best photography books by American Photo magazine.
Earlier in his career, Finke was one of 12 artists nominated for the International Center for Photography’s annual Infinity Award, and he won a prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His work is in nine museum collections in the U.S. and abroad, and he regularly shoots for editorial clients like National Geographic, the New Yorker, and the New York Times as well as commercial clients, including Delta Airlines, Uber Eats and Budweiser.
In addition to photographing his long-term personal projects, Finke is a guest teacher in photography at the International Center for Photography in Manhattan, the New School, Red Hook Labs in Brooklyn and FotoFilmic in Vancouver. A native Texan, he lives in Brooklyn and is passionate about travel, tattoos, barbecue and biking.
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Artist: Brian Finke
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 34)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 34), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 33)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 33), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 25)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 25), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 24)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 24), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 23)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 23), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 22)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 22), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Bar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 9)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 9), 2011
Taken in the final minutes of the Atlantic Challenge, a 3-month-long rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Canary Islands to Barb...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Amtrak no. 7)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Amtrak no. 7), 2001
This photo documentary explores the faces, locations, and personalities of those who opt to travel by train and the storied Americana of train travel i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Amtrak no. 5)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Amtrak no. 5), 2001
This photo documentary explores the faces, locations, and personalities of those who opt to travel by train and the storied Americana of train travel i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Amtrak no. 4)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Amtrak no. 4), 2001
This photo documentary explores the faces, locations, and personalities of those who opt to travel by train and the storied Americana of train travel i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Amtrak no. 2)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Amtrak no. 2), 2001
This photo documentary explores the faces, locations, and personalities of those who opt to travel by train and the storied Americana of train travel i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Football no. 78)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 78), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Flight Attendants, monograph
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Flight Attendants
powerHouse Books, 2008
112 pages, 10.25 x 10.25 in
51 color photographs
Signed, $125
Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke began photographing flight attendants as he crisscrossed the country on Delta, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Hooters Air, Southwest, and Song airlines before going abroad on Air France, Qantas, and British Airways. In London, he visited a flight attendant school, complete with emergency rafts and billowing smoke. Continuing east, Finke traveled Air Asia, Thai, Tiger, ANA, Japan, and Cathay Pacific...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Paper
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 95), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 95), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 95), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 19), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 19), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 19), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Circus no. 3)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Circus no. 3), 2004
Signed, numbered, and dated, verso
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, edition of 4
20 x 20 in, edition of 9
15 x 15 in, edition of 20
Please note that ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Home no. 9)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Home no. 9), 2019
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Julie no. 25)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Julie no. 25), 2019
Untitled (Julie no. 25) is a photograph made in the early months of the artist’s relationship.
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Football no. 75)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 75), 2002
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Football no. 67)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 67), 2002
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Football no. 61)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 61), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Football no. 37)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 37), 2002
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Football no. 33)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 33), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Football no. 27)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 27), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 123
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 123), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football player...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 119)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 119), 2002
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football player...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 117)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 117), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football player...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 113)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 113), 2001
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football player...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (U.S. Marshals, South Texas no. 176)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (U.S. Marshals, South Texas no. 176), 2014
The U.S. Marshals project started in 2010 and was photographed on and off over three years. Renowned p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 91), 2002
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 91), 2002
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 91), 2002, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 90), 2002
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 90), 2002
Untitled (Cheerleading #90), 2002, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Editions, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 59), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 59), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading #59), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Editions, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 85), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 85), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 85), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 43), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 43), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 43), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 21), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 21), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 21), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Ocean City)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Ocean City), 2020
Untitled (Ocean City) was made in August 2020 from the ninth floor of The Braemar in Ocean City, Maryland, where we stayed for ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Football no. 99)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 99), 2002
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. Mi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 73)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 73), 2005
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 73) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing mal...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (U.S. Marshals, Houston no. 32)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (U.S. Marshals, Houston no. 32), 2014
The U.S. Marshals project started in 2010 and was photographed on and off over three years. Renowned photographer Brian Finke was reun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Blue Ridge Parkway)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Blue Ridge Parkway), 2020
Untitled (Blue Ridge Parkway) is from a series of images made while driving from New York City to New Orleans i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Rumblers no. 1)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Rumblers no. 1), 2006
Untitled (Rumblers no. 1) documents a quiet moment of The Rumblers, a biker gang in the Bronx, photographed for New York Magazine in 2006.
Signed, n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (The Braemar)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (The Braemar), 2020
Untitled (The Braemar) is a photograph titled the name of the condo where we often go on family vacations. (The rule is you must say its name with a fak...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Rockaways)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Rockaways), 2020
Untitled (Rockaways) was our local beach spot for Summer 2020.
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Football no. 106)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Football no. 106), 2002
For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football players. M...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (East River no. 24)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (East River no. 24), 2019
Untitled (East River no. 24) is a view of the East River with a shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, taken in 2019 from the artist’s studio on Cherry S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Roshayati, Air Asia)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Roshayati, Air Asia), 2006
Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke spent three years, on and off, photographing flight attendants on carriers in the United States and abroa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Wenyi and Kate, Tiger Airways)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Wenyi and Kate, Tiger Airways), 2006
Flying the friendly skies, Brian Finke spent three years, on and off, photographing flight attendants on carriers in the United States...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 104)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 104), 2005
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 104) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing m...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Hip Hop Honeys no. 45)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Hip Hop Honeys no. 45), 2013
Women have been an essential part of decades’ worth of rap videos yet rarely get the spotlight. The works in the series Hip Hop Honeys attempt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Construction no. 53)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Construction no. 53), 2008–2011
Construction workers are often imagined in broad and stereotypical terms. However, whereas in his previous series, the artist zeros in on p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 25), 2001
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 25), 2001
Untitled (Cheerleading no. 25), 2001, was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Edition...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 93)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 93), 2005
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 93) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing mal...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 77)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 77), 2005
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 77) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing mal...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 53)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 53, 2005
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 53) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing male...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 36)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 36), 2004
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 36) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing mal...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 16)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 16), 2004
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 16) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing mal...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 6)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 6), 2003
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 6) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing male ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 3)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 3), 2003
Untitled (Bodybuilding no. 3) is from Brian Finke’s series Most Muscular (2003–2005), where the artist spent nearly two years photographing male ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Brian Finke Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, C Print
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