Mike Galinsky

Bio

“I don’t know what I would have done without punk rock,” says photographer and filmmaker Mike Galinsky. “It made me feel like I could do anything I wanted.” An attendee of NYU back when it was a commuter school, he doubted he had what it took to be an artist. Today he is so prolific that he’s juggling several feature films. His “photo set” of 80’s mall life first caught fire in the Flickr era, prompting publication as a fancy folio. A recent viral Instagram reel inspired demand for affordable reprints, a forthcoming hardcover called The Decline of Mall Civilization.