As the quotes grew longer, and the interviews deeper, Stanton developed a signature storytelling style—one that blends the lure of urban voyeurism with an eye for the extraordinary detail in seemingly ordinary subjects. In this way, HONY joins organizations like TED and the Moth at the vanguard of a slow but certain lexical refashioning. Humans Of New York is a map pinpointing the city’s diversity among his photos, subject and literacy can be life changing for the reader.

It is a stunning collection of images that will appeal not just to those who have been drawn in by the outsized personalities of New York, but to anyone interested in the breathtaking scope of humanity it displays. The result of these efforts was Humans of New York, a vibrant blog in which he featured his photos alongside quotes and anecdotes.the Homo Sapiens Agenda a few years back, I’ve been a little obsessed with the idea that “people are houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. You can take something that happened in someone’s life that seems very meaningless, and by crafting it into a story, you’ve taken something that is something that can be unexplainably tragic — like the brain cancer in your nine-year-old child — and turned it into something that speaks to people and gives them meaning. He could not get enough of the city and people, “when the summer ended, I went back to Chicago just long enough to pack my bags and move back to New York. NOTE: other restrictions can be a result of our security platform detecting potential malicious activity.

When Stanton was asked on the AMA, If you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be? A barefoot black boy in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, stands surrounded by newsprint-papered walls, a dog at his feet. I just wish that each photograph had come with it's own unique story, only some of the images have stories and others just a quick "Seen in. I finally broke down and asked for it after a semester spent squinting at HONY art through the lens of Google Images in the back of my ninth grade journalism class. Self-taught photographer Brandon Stanton created it back in 2010; essentially he walked around New York City stopping random people on the streets, taking their portraits, learning snippets of their stories, and captioning the pictures with their quotes.Today HONY is followed by nearly one million people, and is the fastest growing Arts and Humanities page on Facebook.

In March 2016, Stanton wrote an open letter to Donald Trump that went viral on Facebook, garnering over 2. Humans of New York expands on Stanton's project with four hundred colour photos, including exclusive portraits, all-new stories, and a distinctive vellum jacket. I know what it’s like, because I lived in a Chinese orphanage until the age of ten, and I wasn’t able to go to school because I couldn’t walk. In HONY, there is often a caption with only a sentence or two while HONY: Stories, each story was usually a paragraph long. Both convey something almost spiritual: something about the delicate string that hangs between youth and resilience, about the miraculous talent of children, however voiceless, to stand unswallowed by the city.The series partnered with the nonprofit, Headstrong Project, to highlight the mental health struggles veterans experience. He used his work there to raise awareness of Syeda Ghulam Fatima's efforts to help Pakistani brickworkers that had become bonded laborers. The book included some quotes and stories, but largely it represented the photographic origins of HONY. Humans of New York is distinct from other photo-coffee-table books because the cohesiveness of the photo and text relationship on each page.