My husband recently turned me on to this fabulous New York photographer, Naomi Harris. Her portraits of humans are shot within a public context--a Rubiks Cube competition, a gathering of swingers, a Miami Beach retirement community, spring break, a porn star academy--and expose the paradoxical relationship between the individual and the system they are acting within. She captures moments that brilliantly juxtapose the fantasy stage drop with the banal details that undermine its desired effect. She is one of a rare few female photographers to document the porn world, though, frankly, the art world’s current obsession with the adult industry is starting to wear extremely thin. I found her Rubik’s cute, retirement photos, and spring break coverage more intriguing. Not (all are) office safe, unless you work somewhere kinky.

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