Naimi Harris’ career began 20 years ago when she began a successful series of photos of elderly people living in Haddon Hall, a Jewish retirement community in Miami Beach, Florida.
This Canadian woman who became an American in 2013 says that this work remains her ” favorite project so far. I immersed myself in it and got to know my subjects for more than two and a half years. They became like a surrogate grandparent to me,” she says.
The photographer is often compared to Diane Arbus for a reason. In a way, she is an extension of her work and her taste for marginal and transversal visions. But she has a style all her own.
In 2016 Naomi Harris traveled alone and by car across the USA. She sometimes lived there, parked in a parking lot to meet and photograph supporters of President Donald Trump and find out what made them vote for him.
As a rebellious and lonely artist who had left her modern conservative parents’ home, she continued to live in the same way. She abandoned her Jewish neighborhood to pursue her explorations from Toronto to Los Angeles, showing the subcultures of society to expose their mystery and sometimes celebrate it.
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