Here is an instinctual photographer. Instead of using elaborate props to concoct that which may lie beneath the surface of things, she seems to believe that clues to behaviour, or personality, come through by recording the subject as is. And although some of her pieces bring to mind Andre Kertesz or Diane Arbus’s stark, sometimes cruel realism, Harvey’s manner is tamer. She shoots with a gentle edge. For most of us, age exhibits character and the faces of the elderly which peer into Harvey’s lens, like the 83-year-old Italian woman gazing at us with a regal exuberant defiance from her New York doorstep or the two women caught in the lobby of Toronto’s Winchester hotel, are moving examples of how we try to cheat time. Being ordinary and therefore often overlooked by the casual observer, subjects such as these are all the more startling when frozen in a frame. They connect, inviting us to look upon ourselves.