Brandon Stanton

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'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 portraits of people living and working primarily in New York City, accompanied by bits and bobs of conversations about their lives. 2Life and work 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 City, he set out to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers and plot their portraits on a map of the city, surviving on unemployment checks to "almost pay rent" and borrowing money from friends and family. Eventually, he moved his photographs to the Humans of New York Facebook page, which he started in November 2010. After posting a photo of a woman including a quote from her, he soon began adding captions and quotes to his photographs, which eventually evolved into full interview