Jordan Kleinman is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose ongoing project Combinator 5000 transforms thousands of portraits into new collective identities. What begins as individual faces becomes something more fluid—images that hover between the familiar and the unknowable.
Working at the intersection of chance, technology, and conceptual portraiture, Kleinman allows algorithmic combinations to guide the evolution of each piece. The process reveals patterns that already exist between people: echoes of strangers, shared expressions, the subtle architecture of our common humanity.
His work explores humanity not through a single portrait, but through the hidden connections of many—where order meets randomness, individuality dissolves into the universal, and a new face emerges from the collective. Combinator 5000 becomes both an experiment and a meditation, searching for the essence that appears only when we are seen together.
For booking inquiries: jk@jordankleinman.com