Brandon Stanton
Author, photographer, blogger
Brandon Stanton is the author of “Humans of New York”, a photography and storytelling blog. Over the course of five years, “Humans of New York” (HONY) has built a devoted following of close to 20 million fans on several social media pages. Stanton has appeared on Ellen, Good Morning America, Nightline, MSNBC, CNN, has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Mashable, and dozens of other media venues. He has also been named a ‘person of the week’ on the ABC Evening News with Diane Sawyer, and a TIME Magazine “30 Under 30 Who are Changing the World.” He has photographed President Obama in the Oval Office and is the author of two #1 New York Times Bestsellers, Humans of New York, (2013) and Humans of New York: Stories (2015).
Stanton was awarded The American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016.
Twitter: @humansofny
