Harris grew up in a small farming community in Idaho. He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a principal of FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years. A serious photographer since the late 80s, he has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe with four solo and over one hundred group shows. He has been published in Shots Magazine, The Photo Review, Art Reveal, Smithsonian.com, Street Photography Magazine, Barren Magazine, Tagree, Square, Black and White (cover) and a number of on-line photographic sites. He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada in an 1823 cottage overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He is the technical director for his wife’s Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater group established to present intimate mixed media works).