Noah Kalina

Noah Kalina
Kalina in his studio in 2021
Born
Noah Kalina

(1980-07-04) July 4, 1980 (age 45)
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Known for
Notable workEveryday
Websitenoahkalina.com

Noah Kalina (born July 4, 1980) is an American art photographer. Much of Kalina's work focuses on the passage of time including his well-known project Everyday which shows the aging of a human.[1][2] His photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Monocle, Businessweek, Nylon, Esquire, Le Monde, and Interview, among others.

Life

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]

Diachronic Photography

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]

Everyday

[Everyday] represents a phenomenal amplification [in] how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time. There is nothing comparable in the history of photography.

–William A. Ewing, museum director of the Musée de l'Élysée, speaking to The New York Times[1][12]

Kalina began taking a photo of himself every day starting on January 10, 2000, at age 19.[13][14] The video Everyday shows the photos chronologically, six per second, with an original piano score by his former girlfriend Carly Comando.[15] Kalina uploaded the video in August 2006 where it received widespread attention and has since become the subject of homages and parodies. The long-term project is ongoing. Since 2009, Kalina has been using the Nikon Coolpix S10 to make his daily portrait.[16]

Other notable photographs

Kalina's style of photography has been described as "meditative" and "quiet".[17]

Additional projects

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.[22][23] In October 2020, Kalina and commercial director Adam Lisagor launched the podcast All Consuming[24] where they review direct-to-consumer brands that advertise on Instagram.[25]

Exhibitions

Year Title Gallery Location
2025 Greetings from Here Sullivan Public Eldred, NY
2024 Protect the Network The Field Room Callicoon, NY
2024 Discovering Water Galli-Curci Theatre Margaretville, NY
2024 A River Valley Landscape The Darby Beach Lake, PA
2024 Process Projected WIHH Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 The Wood for the Trees Hawk & Hive Andes, NY
2021 Over Time Catskill Art Society Livingston Manor, NY
2021 The River Nonneta and Friends Creative Barryville, NY
2021 XII Edition Magmart Naples, Italy
2020 Village Motel Gallerie Blanc Montreal, Canada
2020 everyday VSOP Projects Greenport, NY
2019 This Must Be The Place VSOP Projects Greenport, NY
2018 Cosmik Debris VSOP Projects Greenport, NY
2018 Decode: Artist Interpret Data John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York, NY
2018 The Great Outdoors Hurleyville Arts Centre Hurleyville, NY
2017 Landscapes and Interventions Hathaway Gallery Atlanta, GA
2017 Projected International Center of Photography New York, NY
2017 Daydreams and Nightmares VSOP Projects Greenport, NY
2017 The Fog Catskill Art Society Livingston Manor, NY
2015 In the Mood: Photography and the Everyday Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography La Verne, CA
2015 Selfie: From Self Portrait to Staging the Self Brandts Museum of Photographic Art Odense, Denmark
2015 Tomorrow Has Passed One-Eyed Jacks Gallery Brighton, UK
2014 Performance: Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection Center for Creative Photography Tucson, AZ
2013 Flowers 17 Frost Brooklyn, NY
2013 Lovin' it? Bromer Art Collection Roggwil, Switzerland
2013 These Friends 4 THIS LA Los Angeles, CA
2012 Myths and Realities Visual Arts Gallery New York, NY
2012 Faces, Places and Spaces Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities Arvada, CO
2012 Biennale of Social Design Utrecht Manifest Utrecht, Netherlands
2011 Borders THIS LA Los Angeles, CA
2011 As Time Goes By Triennale di Milano Milan, Italy
2011 And Introducing… Worksound Gallery Portland, OR
2011 ilmage: The Uncommon Portrait Portsmouth Museum of Art Portsmouth, NH
2010 Night Gallery Corcoran School of the Arts and Design Washington, DC
2010 Playground Octane Atlanta, GA
2010 Thanks for Sharing D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Germany
2010 Cercle Vicieux Espace 201 Montreal, Canada
2010 Pro'jekt LA 3: Dear Diary MOPLA - Space 15 Twenty Los Angeles, CA
2010 these friends THIS LA Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b Schneider, Keith (March 18, 2007). "Look at Me, World! Self-Portraits Morph Into Internet Movies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 1, 2015. "Noah's video represents a phenomenal amplification not just in what he produced and how he did it, but how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time," said Mr. Ewing, the author of "Face: The New Photographic Portrait" (Thames & Hudson). "There is nothing comparable in the history of photography."
  2. ^ a b "Meet Noah Kalina, the Zuckerberg Wedding Photographer and Former Viral-Video Sensation". New York. May 22, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  3. ^ Lehner, Ace, ed. (May 6, 2021). Self-Representation in an Expanded Field. MDPI. p. 87. ISBN 9783038975649.
  4. ^ Kelly, Liz (December 22, 2006). "He Oughta Be in Pictures". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2007.
  5. ^ "Noah Kalina "Over Time"". Catskills Art Society. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  6. ^ Essmaker, Ryan (July 17, 2018). "Noah Kalina". The Great Discontent. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Bogan, Daniel (September 21, 2021). "Uses This / Noah Kalina". UsesThis.com. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  8. ^ Gorence, Amanda (April 15, 2014). "What's In Your Camera Bag?: Photographer Noah Kalina". FeatureShoot. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  9. ^ Brooks, Ellis (December 17, 2021). "NFTs Are Critical for the Future of Art". OneZero. Retrieved December 22, 2021. Time is a recurring theme in Kalina's work, and he frequently works on series that explore and document subtle changes in a single subject over a long period.
  10. ^ a b Gottschalk, Molly. "How to Channel a Daily Vision into a 20-Year Photography Career". 99u. Adobe. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  11. ^ "Inside Culture: Portfolio". Arts and Leisure. The New York Times. New York. July 25, 2021. p. 2. The photographer Noah Kalina, who often creates time-lapse projects, created more than 110 pictures from the same spot at his home in Lumberland, N.Y., between October and June – a time when many were forced to remain stationary.
  12. ^ Hoby, Hermione; Lamont, Tom (April 10, 2010). "How YouTube made superstars out of everyday people". The Guardian. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  13. ^ Kalina, Noah (January 2022). Bijani, Jacob; Griffiths, Matthew; Evans, Henry (eds.). "Everyday - About". Retrieved January 13, 2025.
  14. ^ Noah Kalina (January 12, 2025). Opening The Archive Drawer: 25 Years of Everyday. youtube.com. Retrieved January 13, 2025. I actually started this project on January 10, 2000. Now, all my videos, almost all the places this is in print, say January 11, 2000 … in 2006, when I put the first YouTube video up, that was just a mistake, and I just incorrectly dated it.
  15. ^ Carlson, Jen (January 9, 2008). "Noah Kalina, Photographer". Gothamist. Archived from the original on April 14, 2014. Retrieved November 30, 2012. That video, called "everyday," was scored to original music by his ex-girlfriend Carly Comando
  16. ^ Matey, James (April 2021). Iris Recognition on Noah Kalina's Everyday (PDF) (Technical report). National Institute of Standards and Technology. doi:10.6028/NIST.TN.2154. 2154.
  17. ^ "Noah Kalina - The Shorty Awards". Shorty Awards. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  18. ^ Blazenhoff, Rusty (November 2, 2012). "The Looking Glass, Disney Parks As Seen By Selected Photographers". Laughing Squid. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  19. ^ "Some Like It Cold: Where Jet Engines Must Endure Icing to Take the Cake". GE.com. March 21, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  20. ^ Kennedy, John (March 17, 2017). "Google paints giant, colourful murals on its Irish and US data centres". Silicon Republic. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  21. ^ Wiegers, Liz (October 17, 2019). "The MoMA reveals fresh museum experience with reopening". Untitled Magazine. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  22. ^ "Noah Kalina" (Interview). The Caret. Archived from the original on November 24, 2021. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
  23. ^ Robayo, Patricio (September 10, 2021). "Noah Kalina presents 'Over Time'". Sullivan County Democrat. Callicoon, New York. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  24. ^ "All Consuming". All Consuming. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  25. ^ "'All Consuming' Podcast, Featuring Adam Lisagor and Noah Kalina Reviewing Direct to Consumer Products". Laughing Squid. October 15, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2021.