Brandon Stanton is the writer and photographer behind Humans of New York, an online storytelling project with thirty-million followers on social media. Called ‘one of the most important art projects of the decade’ by The Washington Post, Humans of New York inspired thousands of similar projects around the world and is credited with sparking a storytelling movement centered on the lives of ordinary people. Stanton is also the creator of Dear New York, a two-week immersive art installation staged in NYC’s Grand Central Station, described as the largest public work of the last two decades.

Stanton has photographed and interviewed over ten thousand people in forty different countries around the world. During this time he has helped raise over $20 million in support of various causes and individuals that have been featured in his work. He is also the author of four #1 NYT Bestselling Books, which have sold millions of copies around the world: Tanqueray (2022), Humans (2020), Humans of New York: Stories (2015), and Humans of New York. (2013) He currently lives with his wife and three children in New York City.

You can contact him here: honybrandon@gmail.com
Photo: Stas Komarovski, courtesy of Brooks Brothers