So five stars for Brandon Stanton's photographs, and a mere three stars for their physical presentation. The short and notionally revealing quotes that accompany each image “grew longer and longer,” Stanton explains, “until eventually I was spending fifteen to twenty minutes interviewing each person I photographed. Like the pictured smiling woman with roses in her cotton-candy hair, I too am inspired by colors and beautiful things.

In association with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Stanton went to Europe in 2015 to capture migrants and refugees seeking asylum in Europe from their homelands, most of which are war zones. Instead of focusing on individualism, Stanton specific captions in the pictures displayed humanity uniqueness that coexistent overall as a whole piece. 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. A pair of kids, two hundred pages apart, wear identical orange ties and blue sweaters, testimony to the growing power, even sartorial, of Eva Moskowitz, the C.We do not see a fundraiser campaign to create a public policy that helps homeless people because everyone (including Stanton and the viewers) focuses particular stories that conjure up specific, relatable feelings. Some may be having similar issues, or be completely unaware of people fighting poverty or substance abuse. In a matter of months, HONY became so popular that when Stanton accidentally updated his Facebook status with just the letter "Q", his post garnered 73 likes within a minute.

It is a stunning collection of images that will appeal not just to those who have been drawn in by the outsized personalities of New York, but to anyone interested in the breathtaking scope of humanity it displays. Another aspect that contributed to HONY’s success is the prominence of different applications such as Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, VSCO, and the list goes on. I want to be a diplomat, and travel, and do all sorts of things that have nothing to do with being disabled. If I'm ever stranded on a desert island, I want my copy of HONY to keep me tethered in some fundamental way to my human life and what it means to be human. Human’s Of New York initially was a private blog seen only for friends and family and posted the images with no context.He realized the quality of his work came from the characteristics of the subjects and inputted their storytelling with the photographs. In Stanton’s photo of the encounter, Vidal sits grinning behind the Resolute desk, the President and principal flanking him like wings. A man in a rare uncaptioned photo sleeps on a subway platform, splayed out like a starfish, performing that most basic of urban imperatives: claiming space.

Taking a photograph of someone and taking a portrait a person to tell their story are two very different things. I still flip through it when I want to decompress, and I find myself making references to it all the time. Today HONY is followed by nearly one million people, and is the fastest growing Arts and Humanities page on Facebook. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in his attempt to capture ordinary New Yorkers in the most extraordinary of moments.

I’ve sort of had an arrogant demeanor my entire life, and I’m learning that I’m going to have to change that if I want to succeed.