Humans of New York (Humans of New York, 1)

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In this beautiful follow-up to the bestselling Humans of New York, street photographer Brandon Stanton celebrates our shared humanity with yet more stunning photographs and stories from the lives of ordinary, extraordinary New Yorkers.

Here, the photos are arranged from youth to seniority, and the spread as a whole helps deliver the theme of lessons learned throughout a lifetime. In May 2016, Stanton shared a series of interviews with pediatric cancer patients at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.In an article, written by Brand Stanton in The Huffington Post discuss his past life explaining, “Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. Brandon Stanton will take you on an extraordinary journey through the photos of the people living in New York. Stanton’s project began as a blog, and HONY’s photos can be viewed on Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and in print. The three stars is not for Stanton's HONY photographs, which are fascinating, gorgeous, heartbreaking, humbling, and yes, human.

In 2013, HONY launched another Indiegogo campaign to help news cameraman Duane Watkins and his wife adopt a child from Ethiopia. Thank you for every time you’ve said hello to me on the street, and told me how much the blog means to you.Humans of New York had long existed as a blog with tens of thousands of loyal followers by the time I discovered this book. Season one included thirteen episodes which ranged from fifteen and twenty-five minutes in length and touched on common themes across the interviews. After they finished kissing, she took off the blue cape and laid it over a woman sleeping on a nearby bench. The Atlantic The images are gorgeous, and the effect is like walking through a version of our city where startlingly honest thought bubbles appear over everyone's head. Had the book not been published in color, the stories and messages would have been drained and suffered.

This book is based on the premise of the author’s blog, which being anti-social media I didn’t realise, and I guess, most people are aware of the blog and not the book.With four hundred color photos, including exclusive portraits and all-new stories, Humans of New York is a stunning collection of images that showcases the outsized personalities of New York. As a result of the campaign, Stanton, the student, and his principal were invited to visit the White House in 2015.