Brandon Stanton- Lexi Wilson

Brandon Stanton is a street portrait photographer in New York City most known for his book/blog, Humans of New York. Stanton approaches people he encounters everyday, mostly in Manhattan and asks them if he can photograph them. He then records and shares snippets of conversation or takeaways from these conversations. He shoots with a 5d mark III and uses a fairly shallow depth of field in his images. He uses color as well as environment to draw attention to his subjects.

Starting out, Stanton wanted to take 10,000 pictures of the people of new york to plot an interactive map, creating a photographic census of the city. He covers a variety of people in his photographs, each with a unique and interesting story. Sometimes these short interactions with people will result in the subject sharing a personal story about themselves which Stanton then includes with his photographs, or Stanton will provide a caption explaining how he was impacted by their interaction.