![]() Contributed by Gustavo Zogobi Humans of New York is a blog and bestselling book containing portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York. Brandon Stanton is a photographer and the creator. He started writing it in November 2010. The initial goal for Brandon was to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers on the street, and after that he would be creating a catalogue of the city’s inhabitants. At some point of doing it, he started interviewing his subjects in addition to photographing them, and alongside their portraits he would be including quotes and stories about their lives. Later on, he started doing both things together. He was photographing and writing about the inhabitants of New York. After doing that for a while, Humans of New York was born. Brandon looks for any kind of person that wants to share some interesting aspect of their lives. For him, where you came from, your race, your sexuality, or your religion does not matter. What really matters for him is the point that you have a great story that you can be told, and that he can publish. New York being one of the biggest cities in the world is great for this kind of thing. With thousands and thousands of different people, with many kinds of culture, Brandon is in paradise. One of the greatest things about Humans of New York is that anyone can be a protagonist. For Brandon, it's only important that you have something really interesting to tell, any kind of story, based on some experience in life that you have lived. Racism, discrimination, or differences do not exist for Brandon. His job is to know a lot of different people, and consequently new cultures, and that is what he looks for. Humans of New York can be accessed in any social media. It can be found on Facebook with over seventeen million likes so far. Also, it can be found on Instagram, and almost 5 million people have liked it on Instagram. Brandon Stanton has a Twitter account, and on Twitter he shares every story that he publishes. On his Twitter account he has almost five hundred thousand followers. Lastly, Humans of New York has its own website where people can learn more about what Brandon does and what Humans of New York is. Humans of New York has become a success with all those followers on social media because people want to know about each other’s lives. What Brandon does without any kind of discrimination of culture, race, and religion is especially great. People like sites like this one because it reflects reality; it is not like a movie where almost everything is fiction. Personally, I think Humans of New York is awesome. Every week I read a different story, and how Brandon does it is phenomenal. He always tells interesting stories. It seems like he knows how to pick the right person because every person has an amazing story that has to be told. It does not matter the age, gender, race, country, and religion, every time that he tells a story it gets more interesting. And what always gets my attention is that every person has something absolutely amazing that has to be heard, and Brandon does it perfectly. He deserves all the success that he is having right now with Humans of New York because he knows how to do it. It is not simply a picture and a story that he presents, it is way more. He makes us, his audience, wait anxiously for the next post. Keep doing it, Humans of New York; keep making us to read more, and more. Brandon, you are great!
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