Brandon Stanton started Humans of New York in the summer of 2010. Brandon sets out on the streets of NewYork to photograph the city’s inhabitants. The blogs beauty lies in the stories that people tell, there is so much connect to the site because of these stories from the people in the photos.

There are over eight million followers on its facebook page, HONY provides it’s audience with daily glimpses into the lives of strangers in New York City. A book was published with the same name and it became the #1 NewYorkTimes bestselling book.