Noah Kalina

Born in Huntington, New York, on July 4, 1980,[3] Kalina attended Harborfields High School. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts. For years he was based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn[4] but Kalina now works from a studio in Lumberland, New York.[5][6] Kalina has created a number of widely exhibited photographs, generally working in medium format, using the Danish Phase One XF camera+IQ3 back with Schneider and Phase One lenses and Profoto strobes.[7][8]

A number of Kalina's projects have been noted as examinations of the passage of time.[9] By returning to a subject at a later point and creating additional photographs of it, a sequence of his images draws attention both to the aspects of the subject that have changed and the aspects that have remained the same. Projects that use this format include Everyday (himself, since 2000), Domino Sugar (the Domino Sugar Factory, since 2010), River and N1 (the intersection of River Street and North 1st Street in Brooklyn, since 2013), Lumberland (a black walnut tree, since 2015), and The River (the Delaware River, since 2015).[10] In 2020, The New York Times commissioned a new extended series of photos-over-time from Kalina of the view from his bedroom window from October 2020 to June 2021.[11]

Kalina's style of photography has been described as "meditative" and "quiet".[15]

• In May 2012, Kalina created the official wedding portrait of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan in their backyard in Palo Alto, California.[2]
• In 2012, Disney selected Kalina to produce a series of photographs of their characters in their parks called "The Looking Glass".[16]
• In 2013, conglomerate General Electric commissioned Kalina to produce photographs in their newly opened $50 million jet engine testing site to document aviation developments.[17]
• In 2016, tech-giant Google sent Kalina to document through photography their data centers around the world.[18]
• In 2019, after major renovations, the Museum of Modern Art commissioned a series of photographs to highlight their reopening campaign "the New MoMA".[19][10]

In July 2019, Kalina began to publish a popular email newsletter covering topics including photography and nature and Kalina has commented this project is his primary focus.[20][21] In October 2020, Kalina and commercial director Adam Lisagor launched the podcast All Consuming[22] where they review direct-to-consumer brands that advertise on Instagram.[23]

• Kalina, Noah (2020). Lamb, Richy (ed.). Tiny Flock. Glasgow, Scotland: Post Post Modern.
• Kalina, Noah (2019). Bedmounds. Yoffy Press. ISBN 978-1949608137.
• Klein, Zach; Kalina, Noah (2015). Cabin Porn. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316378215.
• Kalina, Noah (2014). PRIMED. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1503269231.

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• Official website
• Noah Kalina at Aperture Foundation
• Noah Kalina at MutualArt