Canadian NAOMI HARRIS is primarily a portrait photographer who seeks out interesting cultural trends to document through her subjects. Personal projects include HADDON HALL in which she photographed the last remaining elderly residents at a hotel in South Beach. For this work she received the 2001 International Prize for Young Photojournalism from Agfa/Das Bildforum, honorable mention for the Yann Geffroy Award, and was a W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography finalist.

For her next project AMERICA SWINGS, she documented the phenomenon of swinging over the course of 5 years (from 2003 to 2008) all over the United States. This project was realized in her first monograph released by TASCHEN in 2008 as a limited collectors edition; a trade edition was released in 2010. Artist Richard Prince interviewed Ms. Harris for the book and it was edited by Dian Hanson.

She recently completed EUSA, which is a reaction to the homogenization of European and American cultures through globalization and is releasing a book by the same title in late 2017. It was shortlisted for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award in 2016.

Other accolades include being awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography in 2013, a Long-Term Career Advancement Grant from the Canada Council in 2012 and participating in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in 2004. Currently she’s taking a road trip around the US with her Shihtzu Maggie coinciding with Trump’s First 100 Days.