David Alan Harvey Kanwaka, Kansas, USA. 1969
"After grad school, I moved to Kansas for a job as a newspaper photographer. My boss told me that the most important thing I could do was to get close to the community.
(...) He was right. While I fantasized about working for Life Magazine and Magnum, my reality was the Topeka Capital-Journal. Yet maintaining a closeness with the community led me down a beautiful road. I learned that the most mundane sounding assignment could yield magic if you just kept an open heart and an eye like a hawk. Hearing the Kanwaka Store was on fire didn't seem like a big deal over the police channel of our newspaper radio. Yet, there really is often magic everywhere. You just can't invent this stuff."
— David Alan Harvey © David Alan Harvey | Magnum Photos
