New York City is one of the biggest cities in whole world. It is along with London the only city categorized as an A++ city. It is a city of migration, a symbol for the American Melting Pot. Barely any other city has such a huge number of inhabitants from different cultural and social backgrounds. So, have you ever wondered what the people living there are like? I can show you a way to figure that out without even having to leave your room.
Humans of New York is a tumblr photography blog. Its owner tours through New York City every day and takes pictures of people he meets on the streets. He also has short conversations with them. He later posts the photos on the blog along with snippets of their conversations – something he found interesting in them.
The blog was launched in 2010 by Brandon Stanton. He had worked as a bond trader at Gambit Trading LLC in Chicago until he lost his job in July 2010. Subsequently he decided to move to New York, where he started taking pictures. Originally, he wanted to turn his hobby into his profession and become a photographer. After starting to take random pictures of people on the streets, he however realized that dream differently than planned. He began to put the pictures on a map of the city and started to blog about it. He started to have short conversations with them, however, and found out that many of them had something interesting to tell. So, he put quotes from their conversations below the pictures, which received a great response on their Facebook page. That's the way it has been until today.
Today, the HONY facebook page has over 11 million followers and the tumblr blog has over 400,000. In 2013, the first book based on the blog has been released and was highly successful. It reached number 1 position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2013 list. In 2014, it was followed by Little Humans, which focuses on the children of New York.
The pictures were not only taken in New York, however. Stanton also took various journeys around the world and blogged about the people he met along the way. In 2012, he spent two weeks in Iran. In April 2013, after the Boston Marathon bombings, he traveled in said city and interviewed people there. This year, in 2014, he did a 50 day "World Tour" into 12 different countries. These counties included Iraq, Jordan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ukraine, India, Nepal, Vietnam and Mexico.
As usual, I put together some links. Check them out below!
No comments:
Post a Comment