Mark Sink has been exhibiting his work professionally since 1978 to the present day from street art, commercial galleries, museums and other institutions.

[2] Mark Sink started his career using the Diana, a 120 plastic toy camera, whose soft focus and inconsistencies create beautifully romantic black and white images.

[1] The artist used this simple tool to create moving and intimate portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and Rene Ricard, Grace Jones, Keith Haring, Adam Fuss, Edward Ruscha to Uma Thurman and many others.

[10] Starting in 2004, the festival has gained momentum,[11] Sink biennially coordinates over hundred eighty regional galleries, museums and art spaces to celebrate national and international photography across Colorado.

[19] In 1996 Mark Sink, Dale Chisman, Marina Graves and Lawrence Argent partnered with a philanthropist Sue Cannon opened Denver's first Museum of Contemporary Art.

[22] Some of the exhibited artists included Andy Warhol, Alice Neel, Chris Makos, Marie Cosindas, Paul Outerbridge, Walter Chappell, Winter Prather, Imogen Cunningham and many others.