Brandon Stanton
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{{Short description|American photographer (born 1984)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|03|01}}{{cite news|last=Jalabi|first=Raya|title=NYC photographer's crowdfunding rules OK after DKNY boosts YMCA|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 2, 2013|url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/mar/02/dkny-ymca-brandon-stanton-crowdfunding|access-date=December 19, 2013}}{{cite news|last=Grinberg|first=Emanuella|title = The photographer behind 'Humans of New York'|date= October 18, 2013|publisher=CNN|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/18/living/books-humans-of-new-york/|access-date=October 25, 2013}}
| birth_place = Marietta, Georgia, U.S.
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| occupation = Author, photographer, blogger
| alma mater = University of Georgia
| known_for = Founder of Humans of New York (HONY), 2010
|website ={{URL|www.humansofnewyork.com}}
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Brandon Stanton (born March 1, 1984) is an American author, photographer, and blogger. He is the author of Humans of New York (HONY), a photoblog and book. He was named to Time magazine's "30 Under 30 People Changing the World" list.
Since 2010, Stanton has taken hundreds of portraits of people living and working primarily in New York City, accompanied by bits of conversations about their lives.{{cite news |date= July 30, 2015 |newspaper=The Express Tribune |title= Humans of New York to come to Pakistan in August |url= http://tribune.com.pk/story/929099/humans-of-new-york-to-come-to-pakistan-in-august/ |access-date= August 5, 2015}} He has also traveled outside of the United States, capturing people and their lives in more than 20 countries, including Iran, Iraq, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Mexico.{{cite web |title=Travel {{!}} Collected from trips to over twenty countries, these stories feature people from around the world |work=Humans of New York |url=http://www.humansofnewyork.com/countries |access-date=January 28, 2018}}
Life and work
Stanton grew up in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,{{cite news| title = Human by Human, a Following Grows|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal| url = https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304106704579135783423807744|first= David |last=Shapiro Jr.|date=October 14, 2013 |access-date = October 25, 2013}} where he completed his schooling at The Walker School in 2002.{{cite web| title = Walker Alumnus Brandon Stanton Talks to Students About Humans of New York| publisher = The Walker School| url = http://www.thewalkerschool.org/news/item/index.aspx?linkid=972&moduleid=56| date = February 5, 2013| access-date = October 26, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131023132708/http://www.thewalkerschool.org/news/item/index.aspx?linkid=972&moduleid=56| archive-date = 2013-10-23| url-status = dead}} He majored in history at the University of Georgia.{{cite news |last= Freilich |first= Ellen |title= Book Talk: From blog to best-seller |work= BusinessWorld |date= January 9, 2014 |url= http://www.bworldonline.com/weekender/content.php?id=81757 |access-date= January 31, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923221549/http://www.bworldonline.com/weekender/content.php?id=81757 |archive-date= 2015-09-23 |url-status= dead}} In 2010, he bought a camera while working as a bond trader in Chicago,{{cite news |last=Goodyear |first=Sarah |title=A 'Photographic Census' Captures New York's Characters |newspaper=Bloomberg |publisher=The Atlantic City Lab |date=April 20, 2012 |url=http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/04/photographic-census-captures-new-yorks-characters/1816/|access-date=October 12, 2015}} and started taking photographs in downtown Chicago on the weekends. When he lost his job a short time later,{{cite news |last=Maloney |first=Jennifer |title=In Focus: City's Humans |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304811304577370611460259438#articleTabs%3Darticle |access-date=October 12, 2015}} 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.{{cite news|last=Stanton|first=Brandon|title=Humans of New York: Behind the Lens|work=The Huffington Post|date= December 6, 2017|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brandon-stanton/humans-of-new-york-behind_b_3210673.html|access-date=October 12, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Humans of New York Facebook Information Page|website=Facebook|url=https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/info?tab=page_info}} 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 interviews.
His Humans of New York book was published in October 2013. It received positive reviews{{cite web|title=Humans of New York|url=http://us.macmillan.com/humansofnewyork/BrandonStanton|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|access-date=October 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113061158/http://us.macmillan.com/humansofnewyork/BrandonStanton|archive-date=November 13, 2014|url-status=dead}} and sold 30,000 copies as preorders. The book reached the number 1 position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2013 for the week beginning November 3, 2013.{{cite news|last=Bosman|first=Julie|title=A Fisherman in New York's Sea of Faces |work=The New York Times|date=November 6, 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/business/media/humans-of-new-york-by-brandon-stanton.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=BU_HON_20131108&_r=1|access-date=October 12, 2015}}{{cite news|title=Bestsellers List|work=The New York Times|date=November 3, 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2013-11-03/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html|access-date=October 12, 2015}} The book remained on the list for 26 weeks, again reaching the number one position on December 21, 2014.
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In December 2013, Stanton was named one of Time magazine's "30 Under 30 People Changing the World".{{cite magazine|last=Schweitzer|first=Callie|title=30 Under 30: Meet Brandon Stanton, the Photographer Behind Humans of New York| magazine=Time |date=December 16, 2013|url=https://ideas.time.com/2013/12/16/30-under-30-meet-brandon-stanton-the-photographer-behind-humans-of-new-york/|access-date=October 12, 2015}} In August 2014, he traveled to the Middle East to photograph people as part of a 50-day trip through 10 countries in the region under the auspices of the United Nations.{{cite news|last=Keneally |first=Meghan |title=Humans of New York Photographer's Touching Dispatches From Iraq |work=ABC News |date=August 12, 2014 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/humans-york-photographer-travels-iraq/story?id=24946214 |access-date=October 12, 2015}}{{cite news |last=Gilsinan |first=Kathy |title=Humans of the World |work=The Atlantic |date=August 12, 2014 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/humans-of-the-world/375912/ |access-date=October 12, 2015}} In July 2015, he traveled to Pakistan and again to Iran to do the same.{{cite news|last=Tharoor|first=Ishaan|title='Humans of New York' photographer finds humans of Iran |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 27, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/27/humans-of-new-york-photographer-finds-humans-of-iran/ |access-date=October 12, 2015}}{{cite news |last=Jamal |first=Ramsha |title=Humans of New York blog offers a fresh perspective on Pakistan |newspaper=The Guardian |date=August 21, 2015 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/aug/21/humans-of-new-york-blog-offers-a-fresh-perspective-on-pakistan|access-date=October 12, 2015}} At the conclusion of his trip to Pakistan, Stanton crowdfunded $2.3 million to help end bonded labor in Pakistan.{{cite web |last=Whiteman |first=Hilary |title=The photos that raised $2 million to free bonded brick workers |website=CNN |date=August 19, 2015 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/19/asia/pakistan-humans-new-york-bonded-labor/ |access-date=October 12, 2015}}
In January 2015, Stanton was invited to the Oval Office to interview President Barack Obama. The trip concluded a two-week crowdfunding campaign on Humans of New York in which $1.4 million was raised.{{cite news |last=Zezima |first=Katie |title='Humans of New York' goes to the White House |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 6, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/02/06/humans-of-new-york-goes-to-the-white-house/ |access-date=October 12, 2015}}
In March 2016, Stanton opposed Donald Trump's presidential campaign, criticizing Trump on social media for hateful speech, such as delayed disavowing "white supremacy" and defending those who commit violence at his rallies. A day after his Facebook post, it had over 1.6 million likes and was shared nearly 1 million times.{{cite news |last=Moyer |first=Justin Wm. |date=March 15, 2016 |title=Trump slammed by founder of Humans of New York |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/15/trump-slammed-by-founder-of-humans-of-new-york/ |access-date= March 15, 2016}}
Stanton has posted stories and photos from the Pediatrics Department of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. As he did for his other projects, Stanton created a fundraising campaign, and raised over $3.8 million for pediatric cancer research.{{cite web |last=Stanton |first=Brandon |title=Humans of New York |website=Humans of New York |url=http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/144656865066/over-the-past-two-weeks-90000-of-you-donated |access-date=May 21, 2016}}
In 2020, Stanton released Humans, a book of portraits and stories from forty countries around the world.{{Cite news |last=Egan |first=Elisabeth |date=2020-11-19 |title=Now More Than Ever, Brandon Stanton Makes People Feel Less Alone |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/books/review/brandon-stanton-humans.html |access-date=2025-04-09}} It debuted at number 1 on the NYT Bestsellers’ list in non-fiction category.{{Cite news |title=Best Sellers - Books - Oct. 25, 2020 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/10/25/ |access-date=2025-04-09}}
In 2022, Stanton published the first longform piece of writing based on one of his subjects: Tanqueray. The Washington Post described it as, “A beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature―until now.”{{Cite news |last=Stapinksi |first=Helene |date=2022-07-11 |title=Review {{!}} A psychic said Stephanie Johnson's life would be tough. She was right. |work=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/07/11/tanqueray-humans-stanton/ |access-date=2025-04-09}}{{Cite news |title=Best Sellers - Books - July 31, 2022 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2022/07/31/ |access-date=2025-04-09}}
Publications
- {{cite book |date=2013 |title=Humans of New York |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-03882-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781250038821 }}
- {{cite book |date=2014 |title=Little Humans of New York |location=New York |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0374374563 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/littlehumans0000stan }}
- {{cite book |date=2015 |title=Humans of New York: Stories |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1250058904 }}
- {{cite book |date=2020 |title=Humans |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-11429-7 |location=New York |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781250114297}}
- Tanqueray. With Stephanie Johnson. New York: St. Martin's Press. 2022. ISBN 9781250278272
Awards
- 2013: People's Voice award, Best Use of Photography category, 2013 Webby Award for Humans of New York.{{cite web |title= Best Use of Photography |publisher= The Webby Awards Gallery |url=http://winners.webbyawards.com/2013/web/website-features-and-design/best-use-of-photography |access-date= 2013-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412024219/http://winners.webbyawards.com/2013/web/website-features-and-design/best-use-of-photography |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 12, 2013}}
- 2013: Time magazine placed him in its list of "30 Under 30 World Changers".
- 2014: James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) of University College Dublin (UCD).{{cite web |title= Humans of New York creator, Brandon Stanton honoured by UCD Literary & Historical Society |publisher=UCD News, University College Dublin |date= April 24, 2014 |url= http://www.ucd.ie/news/2014/04APR14/240414-Humans-of-New-York-creator-Brandon-Stanton-honoured-by-UCD-Literary-&%20Historical-Society.html |access-date = August 13, 2014 }}
- 2021: Clio Award for Storytelling.{{Cite web |title=Clio Storytelling Award Recipient: Brandon Stanton |date=2021-04-14 |website=Clios |url=https://clios.com/the-muse/clio-awards-2020-2021-storytelling-award-recipient-brandon-stanton |access-date=2025-04-09}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|www.humansofnewyork.com}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGzgyVAlsDE Brandon Stanton: The Good Story] TEDx
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