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Sharon Harris
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ABOUT Sharon Harris
Toronto Life says Sharon Harris is "a woman of ethereal interests." Since 2001, she has
photo-documented Toronto's "I Love You" graffiti: over one hundred photographs with maps
are viewable at her website, iloveyougalleries.com. In 2006, The Mercury Press published her
first book of poetry and drawings, Avatar, and she has photographed the Toronto literary scene
for the past five years at Poetography.ca. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and
literary journals, and on radio and television across Canada. She is Books Editor at Torontoist.com, and a
Word Magazine contributor.
Avatar, which has enjoyed favourable reviews, is about our great failure to communicate in the
present communications age. It is an exploration of what it means
to be "connected"; is our electronic connection a metaphor for our human connection?
Winter 2005-06, Sharon presented a solo exhibition, I Love You Toronto, which received nationwide
media coverage. An unknown graffiti artist spraypainted those three little words over one hundred times
across a Toronto neighbourhood. Sharon attempted to photograph and map each site. 43 photographic prints
from the exhibition were sold.
In 2007, her photo-archive of the vibrant Toronto literary scene, Poetography.ca, celebrates its fifth
anniversary. Poetography contains over one hundred and twenty literary events, with thousands of
photographs of Canadian writers. Her photos have turned up in magazines, newspapers and literary
journals; and on book covers, event posters, and fliers. They can be seen, credited or
un-credited, on websites all over the world.
She is currently working on I Love You, a cultural study of those three little words.
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