Brandon Stanton

Brandon Stanton
Born Brandon Stanton
(1984-03-01) March 1, 1984[1][2]
Marietta, Georgia
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Georgia
Occupation Author Photographer Blogger
Known for Founder of Humans of New York (2010)
Website www.humansofnewyork.com

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.[3]

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.[4]

Life and work

Stanton grew up in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,[5] where he completed his schooling from The Walker School in 2002.[6] He majored in history at the University of Georgia.[7] In 2010, he bought a camera while working as a bond trader in Chicago,[8] and started taking photographs in downtown Chicago on the weekends. When he lost his job a short time later,[9] 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.[10][11] 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 [12] and sold 30,000 copies as preorders.[5] Ahead of the release, he was interviewed by Bill Weir, for ABC News Nightline.[13] The book reached number 1 position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2013 for the week beginning November 3, 2013.[14][15] The book remained on the list for 26 weeks, again reaching the number one position on December 21, 2014.

Stanton visits President Barack Obama at the White House on February 5, 2015

In December 2013, Stanton was named one of Time Magazine's 30 Under 30 People Changing The World.[16] In August 2014, Stanton traveled to the Middle East, to photograph people as a part of a 50-day trip through 10 countries in the region under the auspices of the United Nations.[17][18] In July 2015 he traveled to Pakistan and again to Iran to do the same.[19][20] At the conclusion of his trip to Pakistan, Stanton crowd funded $2.3 million to help end bonded labor in Pakistan.[21]

In January 2015, Stanton was invited to the Oval Office to interview President Barack Obama. The trip concluded a two-week crowd funding campaign on Humans of New York in which $1.4 million was raised.[22]

In March 2016, Stanton opposed Donald Trump's presidential campaign because he reached a moral decision to criticize Trump for hateful speech, such as delayed disavowing "white supremacy" and defending those who commit violence at his rallies; a day after the post it had over 1.6 million likes and it was shared nearly one million times.[23]

His latest project was posting stories and photos from the Pediatrics Department of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. As with other projects, Brandon created a fundraising campaign and raised over $3.8 million for pediatric cancer research.[24]

Publications

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Raya Jalabi (March 2, 2013). "NYC photographer's crowdfunding rules OK after DKNY boosts YMCA". The Guardian. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ "The photographer behind 'Humans of New York'". CNN. October 18, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  3. ↑ "Humans Of New York Has Helped Raise Over $2 Million To Help End Slave Labor In Pakistan". Huffington Post. August 19, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Humans of New York to come to Pakistan in August". The Express Tribune. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 David Shapiro Jr. (Oct 14, 2013). "Human by Human, a Following Grows". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  6. ↑ "Walker Alumnus Brandon Stanton Talks to Students About Humans of New York". The Walker School. February 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  7. ↑ "Book Talk: From blog to best-seller". BusinessWorld. January 9, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
  8. ↑ Goodyear, Sarah. "A 'Photographic Census' Captures New York's Characters". citylab.com. The Atlantic City Lab. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Maloney, Jennifer. "In Focus: City's Humans". www.wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  10. ↑ Stanton, Brandon. "Humans of New York: Behind the Lens". www.huffingtonpost.com. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Humans of New York Facebook Information Page". www.facebook.com.
  12. ↑ "Humans of New York". www.us.macmillan.com. Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "'Humans of New York': Photog Gone Viral". www.abc.go.com. ABC News. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  14. ↑ Bosman, Julie. "A Fisherman in New York's Sea of Faces". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Bestsellers List". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  16. ↑ Schweitzer, Callie. "30 Under 30: Meet Brandon Stanton, the Photographer Behind Humans of New York". www.time.com. Time, Inc. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  17. ↑ Keneally, Meghan. "Humans of New York Photographer's Touching Dispatches From Iraq". www.abcnews.go.com. ABC News. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  18. ↑ Gilsinan, Kathy. "Humans of the World". The Atlantic. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  19. ↑ Tharoor, Ishaan. "'Humans of New York' photographer finds humans of Iran". www.washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  20. ↑ Jamal, Ramsha. "Humans of New York blog offers a fresh perspective on Pakistan". www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  21. ↑ Whiteman, Hilary. "The photos that raised $2 million to free bonded brick workers". www.cnn.com. Cable News Network. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  22. ↑ Zezima, Katie. "'Humans of New York' goes to the White House". www.washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  23. ↑ Trump slammed by founder of Humans of New York Washington Post, Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  24. ↑ Stanton, Brandon. "Humans of New Yorke". humansofnewyork.com. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  25. ↑ "Best Use of Photography". The Webby Awards Gallery. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  26. ↑ Callie Schweitzer (December 16, 2013). "30 Under 30: Humans of New York Photographer Brandon Stanton". Time.com. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
  27. ↑ "Humans of New York creator, Brandon Stanton honoured by UCD Literary & Historical Society". UCD News, University College Dublin. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-13.

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