Kalum Ko is a director and photographer  based in Brooklyn, New York.

Born in Kimberley, BC, a one-stoplight town in the Canadian Rockies, he began on his mom’s point-and-shoot creating ski films at 13.

Since then, Kalum’s filmmaking and photography have taken him to over 35 countries, where he has worked with brands such as Mercedes-Benz and Tinder, and agencies like GUT and Mischief.

His work has been nominated for the Young Director Award and featured on Nowness, BOOOOOOOM, and National Geographic. 

He won the Juror’s Pick in LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards and a Canada Council for the Arts grant for his project Close to Home.

Kalum is currently working on two post-documentary projects exploring home, community, and coming-of-age themes, that are taking him across Canada.