Oh Canada! Photographer Naomi Harris captures our country’s characters

Activists, Star Trek fans and Vancouver's Sikh Motorcycle Club are some of the people featured in the work of Naomi Harris, a photographer who has travelled her native country documenting Canadian culture through the faces of its people.

In her series "Oh Canada," she photographed a couple in Vulcan, Alberta, wearing Star Trek-inspired costumes, a 99-year-old nun and a teenage mom on a reserve, among many others.

A scan through her Instagram account shows moments from her travels through the U.S. as well, including a coffee shop where baristas serve hot drinks while wearing bikinis. The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reported Harris has spent 2011 living out of her car and travelling for her work.

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Harris now lives in the U.S., but she told the Star-Phoenix that a desire to explore her home country of Canada lead her on a journey north in 2011. That trip across the country became "Oh Canada," and the images were featured in the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21's exhibit Shaping Canada: Exploring our Cultural Landscapes.

Harris says "Oh Canada" is a work in progress that she'll continue to build on with help from a Canada Council for the Arts grant, according to the Star-Phoenix.