“It’s a cosmetic world”

When I called him in early February, fine art-documentary-advertising photographer Larry Fink was just returning from men’s fashion week in Milan. The occasion for the trip was an exhibit of his work in collaboration with one of his regular clients, Woolrich Woolen Mills. Fink had shot the clothing company’s catalogue several times, but this was a different project. Documentary pictures of the logging community he had taken in the 1980s were used as background for a fashion show evoking “Man ..