Life is a collection of moments.

Sometimes they don't add up.

Photographer Larry Fink reveals life in unpredictable and often startling ways. Fink is a master of capturing unguarded moments.

An exhibition, "Work in Process ... The Family," by the internationally-renowned photographer who lives in Martins Creek, Northampton County, contiinues through Feb. 28, Santa Bannon/Fine Art, ArtsQuest Banana Factory, 25 W. Third St., Bethlehem.

"The Family" is the inaugural exhibition for Bannon's gallery, which relocated Jan. 1 from the Banana Factory's second floor, where it had opened Oct. 1, 2012.

Bannon's husband, photographer Thomas Shillea, has studio space at the 1,200-square-foot gallery. They live in Bethlehem Township. Bannon has been a private fine arts dealer for 30 years.

In addition to Fink and Shillea, she represents photographers Michael A. Smith, Paula Chamlee and Bruce Katsiff and ArtsQuest glass artists John Choi and Dennis Gardner, who run the Banana Factory's Hot Glass Studio.

Shillea has work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Smith and his wife, Chamlee, live in Bucks County. Smith had a 25-year retrospective at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, N.Y.

Katsiff is retired CEO of the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown.

Fink, a two-time John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts recipient, has had one-person shows at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum, both New York City, among others.

Bannon also shows work at her gallery of those she doesn't represent. Next up is an exhibition of expressionist paintings of Easton by Ian Summers, March 1 - 31.

"I want more people to buy art and buy local," says Bannon. "They don't have to go and schlep to New York and not just my gallery. There are a lot of other good galleries.

"We wanted to do something that would generate interest and take us to the next level," says Janice Lipzin, ArtsQuest Director of Visual Arts and Education, of Bannon's gallery.

An estimated 300 attended Larry Fink's artist talk and book signing at the Feb. 1 Bethlehem First Friday.

"One of the things I want to do is have a workshop where I can educate people about buying art," Bannon says. "I'm going to have different artists come in. Larry [Fink] is going to be one of them."

"The Family" developed after Fink befriended Stacia Horvath, a night nurse, when he was recuperating at Lehigh Valley Hospital. "I tend to stay up late and play harmonica and jazz. So, I'm an active patient," Fink says.

Last summer, Fink visited the Lower Saucon Township organic farm run by Stacia and her husband, Dennis, who is also a commercial roofer. They raise chickens, ducks and geese and sell eggs and produce. Their daughters, Kayden, 9, and Trinity, 10, help out on the farm.

"They tolerated me poking my camera in their face, nose and eyes without any restriction of what they were going to look like. So, that was fabulous. And I kept on going back."

Of the Horvaths' farm, Fink observes, "It's never so much fun to kill anything, but it's propagation to provide healthy food for the family.

"The [Horvath] kids don't mind it and don't like it at the same time," he points out.

Fink is noted for his forays into domestic and other scenes, notably celebrity functions and fashion shows. The New Yorker magazine commissioned him to photograph two of the inaugural balls last month held for President Barack Obama.

Among Fink's many coffee table books of photographs, several of which are available at Bannon's gallery, are: "The Vanities: Hollywood Parties 2000-2009" (Schirmer-Mosel 2011), "Attraction and Desire: 50 Years in Photography" (The Sheldon Art Galleries 2011); "Night at the Met" (University of California Berkeley, Blurb 2009); and a second publication of "Social Graces" (Power House Books 2001).

Not quite three years ago, Fink switched from film photography to digital photography. He uses small cameras, a Sony PX100 or Ricoh GX4, and, for his prints, Epson photo scanners. He has two assistants.

"With digital you don't have to use a flash. They're more about available light," says Fink, who still does black and white photography.

"I have film. I have a refrigerator full of it. I have all my old cameras. But the digital frees you. And you can go from micro to infinity. The variants are profound.

"It allows me, as an old-time photography guy, to play as a kid. It's really liberating. You don't have to develop it in the morning. And you back it up three or four times on different hard drives so it doesn't go bye-bye."

Of his approach to making photographs, Fink says, "It's very, very obvious and transparent and up front. I don't do it but to explore the honesty of their lives. And I don't have any fear or contradiction within it, so I don't call any attention to myself.

"I photograph very close and nobody minds it. And the thing is, this family [the Horvaths] is completely uninhibited."

True to the series title, "Work in Process," Fink attended funeral services for Dennis' Horvath's father followed by a party Feb. 13.

"This is a saga which might go on for several years," says Fink.