Naomi Harris (b. 1973, Toronto, Canada) seeks out interesting cultural trends to document through her subjects. Monographs include “America Swings” (TASCHEN, 2008), which documents the phenomenon of the lifestyle; “EUSA” (Kehrer Verlag, 2018), a reaction to the homogenization of European and American cultures through globalization; and “Haddon Hall” (Void/Masa Books, 2021), her first and oldest photo project, where she followed the last remaining elderly snowbirds in a Miami Beach hotel at the turn of the millennium. Having lived south of the border for 22 years, Naomi moved back to her childhood home of Toronto in 2018 after her father broke his hip…eight months later she also became her mother’s caregiver when she was diagnosed with cancer. The experience informs her current ongoing project “The Indecency of Mourning,” an investigation into western society’s aversion to death, dying and grief. During the pandemic she received her MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo, graduating in August 2022 (and contracted Covid at the dentist). Currently she’s managing burnout, exploring pottery, discovering the joys of being an executor and figuring out where to live and what life after caregiving looks like.
