About Justin Scalera

Justin Scalera is an architecture and landscape photographer, born and raised in Watchung, NJ. Actively making photographs since grade school, Scalera went on to study photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and received his BFA in Photographic Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in the fall of 2012, Scalera made local and national news for his documentation of the destruction caused by the storm. Producing and selling a book entitled The Perfect Storm: A Visual Representation of the Jersey Shore in the Shadow of Hurricane Sandy, Scalera sold over 5,000 copies and donated $10,000 of the proceeds to local businesses and organizations that were affected by the storm. 

Scalera spent the summer of 2017 working for the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Planning, Design, and Construction creating a visual record of the deterioration to the various museums and facilities run by the Smithsonian. The photographs were used in a funding report sent to the United States Congress.

The following year in 2018, Justin Scalera began working for the National Park Service Heritage Documentation Programs as a large format photographer. Working alongside NPS staff photographer Jarob Ortiz, he created photographic documentations of historic buildings and landscapes on the east coast. These photographs are stored in the HABS/HAER/HALS collection at the Library of Congress.

Most recently Scalera completed a massive documentation project of Eastman Business Park, The Eastman Kodak Company’s historic manufacturing plant in Rochester, NY. The project consisted of hundreds of large format photographs showcasing the plant’s sprawling four miles of historic buildings and apparatuses. It culminated in a book called The Kodak Park Works published by The Eastman Kodak Company and a solo gallery exhibition in the newly renovated Kodak Center.

Email: justin@justinscalera.com

Phone: (908) 930-2972