Naomi Harris was born in Toronto, Canada in 1973. In 1997, as a graduate of Fine Art and Psychology from Toronto’s York University, she moved to New York City to enroll in the distinguished International Center of Photography’s Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program.

In 1999, Harris moved to Miami Beach to begin her first personal project documenting the last hotel in South Beach that catered to senior citizens. On days off she would frequent a nude beach where she began photographing fellow sun worshippers. Shortly thereafter she learned many of her fellow beach goers happened to be swingers and after attending a party decided she had to photograph this underground phenomenon.

Upon returning to New York in April 2002 she began researching the lifestyle and did her first swinger shoot in July 2003 in Black River Falls, WI. This was to be the first of over 38 parties she would photograph in 48 months all over the US.

The project is being realized in America Swings, her first monograph published by TASCHEN due in October 2008 with a forward by Richard Prince.

Harris’ work has appeared in the London Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, Marie Claire UK, Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine. In 2005, her work was shown in the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2004, she became the first Canadian to be invited to participate in the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. Harris received the Gold Award in Photojournalism from the National Magazine Awards Foundation in 2003 and was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2002. In 2001, she won The International Prize for Young Photojournalism presented by Agfa and Das Bildforum in Germany.

Naomi Harris likes to knit, sing karaoke, and frequent nude beaches. She currently lives in New York City.