About/Contact

To contact L. Kasimu Harris:
Studio based in New Orleans
504-416-5519
Visionsandverbsmedia@gmail.com
IG and Twitter: @Visionsandverbs 

L. Kasimu Harris is a New Orleans-based artist whose practice deposits a number of different strategic and conceptual devices in order to push narratives. He strives to tell stories of underrepresented communities in New Orleans and beyond. Harris has shown in numerous group exhibitions across the US and two international exhibitions and has had eight solo photography exhibitions.

In November 2024, Harris is set to debut new work from the Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges series in Prospect.6:  the future is present, the harbinger is home. This work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. Harris’s writing and photography were featured in  “A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times.

In 2020, he was among 60 artists selected nationwide for State of the Art 2020 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Harris’s War on the Benighted series was a part of Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, a group exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2018.

He has penned food columns for the Bitter Southerner. And his essay, The Dismantling of Southern Photography was recently published in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s catalog, “New Southern Photography.” Harris has images in several publications including Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, by Shantrelle P. Lewis by Aperture. Harris’s feature for Edible New Orleans was selected for the book Best Food Writing 2016.  

Most recently, Harris was the unit still photographer for Nickel Boys, a movie directed by RaMell Ross and based on the Colson Whitehead novel.

Harris earned a BBA in Entrepreneurship from Middle Tennessee State University and an MA in Journalism from the University of Mississippi. He is on the Board of Trustees at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, as well as the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Photo Alliance, and is a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance and the Antenna Gallery Collective.  

Harris was a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and a 2020 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence. 

Harris was named one of 8 “Louisianians of the Year” for 2017 by Louisiana Life magazine.

2022 Documentary Photographer of the Year by Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities

Selected Clients

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vox, HuffPost, Gravy, ESPN’s The Undefeated, The Open Society Foundations

Permanent Collections

New Orleans Museum of Art, The Wedge Collection (Toronto), Center of Photography at Woodstock (New York), the NOVO Foundation (New York), Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Shops at the CAC (Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans), The Do Good Fund, and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art.