David Alan Harvey (born June 6, 1944) is an American photographer, based in The Outer Banks, North Carolina and New York City.
In October 2020, Harvey's membership in Magnum was suspended for one year following an investigation into allegations that he had sexually harassed several of his female colleagues.
[2] After a second private investigation into sexual misconduct claims against Harvey, the board of Magnum voted to remove him as a member.
[4] He began photographing at age 11,[1] inspired by months of isolated convalescence as a child after contracting polio, looking out of a window on a ward as though through a viewfinder.
[2] Following a Twitter thread by a photojournalist alleging that Harvey's sexual misconduct was an open secret,[2] Magnum carried out a formal investigation[17] to determine if there had been a breach of their code of conduct.
[2][13] A subsequent December 2020 article in Columbia Journalism Review detailed sexual misconduct allegations by eleven separate women including incidents where Harvey masturbated during video calls without prior consent.