Brandon Stanton
| Brandon Stanton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Brandon Stanton March 1, 1984 Marietta, Georgia |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Georgia |
| Occupation | Author Photographer Blogger |
| Known for | Founder of Humans of New York (2010) |
| Website | www |
Brandon Stanton (born March 1, 1984) is an American best selling author, photographer, and blogger. He is known as author of best selling Humans of New York book, as one of Time Magazine's 30 Under 30 People Changing The World, and the founder of Humans of New York, a popular photojournalistic work that has over 17.8 million likes on Facebook and around 5.7 million followers on Instagram as of late August 2016.
Since 2010, Stanton has taken hundreds of street photographic portraits of ordinary people living and working primarily in New York City, accompanied by snippets of conversations about their lives.
Stanton grew up in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, where he completed his schooling from The Walker School in 2002. He majored in history at the University of Georgia. In 2010, he bought a camera while working as a bond trader in Chicago, and started taking photographs in downtown Chicago on the weekends. When he lost his job a short time later, he decided to pursue photography full-time. Moving to New York, he set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and plot their portraits on a map of the city without compromising his dream through monetization, surviving on unemployment checks to "almost pay rent" and borrowing money from friends and family. Eventually, his photographs were shifted to the Humans of New York Facebook page, which he started in November 2010. After posting a photo a woman in all green including a quote from her, he soon began adding captions and quotes to his photographs, which eventually evolved into full interviews.
His Humans of New York book was published in October 2013. It received good reviews and sold 30,000 copies as preorders. Ahead of the release, he was interviewed by Bill Weir, for ABC News Nightline. The book reached number 1 position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2013 for the week beginning November 3, 2013. The book remained on the list for 26 weeks, again reaching the number one position on December 21, 2014.
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