Noah Kalina

Noah Kalina fascinates me more as a philosopher than a photographer. His Everyday project, photographing his own face daily to chronicle aging, is one of those deceptively simple ideas that quietly confronts mortality. Anyone can take a selfie; almost no one has the discipline to do it relentlessly for years and turn it into a meditation on time. That tells me his real gift is patience, not just a good eye. His editorial work for The New York Times Magazine and Esquire confirms the technical chops, but what I admire is the conceptual nerve. He turns the ordinary passage of time into something genuinely moving.

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Name (English)

Noah Kalina

Name (Japanese)

ノア・カリナ

Reading

のあ・かりな

Born

July 4, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Huntington, New York, United States

Occupation

photographer / artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

High school

Harborfields High School

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://noahkalina.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/noahkalina/
• Xhttps://x.com/noahkalina
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Kalina
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1369237

Tags

• New York
• photographer
• artist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.