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.

[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.

[13][14] The video Everyday shows the photos chronologically, six per second, with an original piano score by his former girlfriend Carly Comando.

[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.