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American photographer (born 1984)

Brandon Stanton (born March 1, 1984) is an American author, photographer, and blogger. He is the author of Humans of New York, a photoblog and book. He was named to Time magazine's "30 Under 30 People Changing The World" list.

Since 2010, Stanton has taken hundreds of portraits of people living and working primarily in New York City, accompanied by bits of conversations about their lives.^[3] He has also traveled outside of the United States, capturing people and their lives in more than 20 countries, including Iran, Iraq, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Mexico.^[4]

Life and work

Stanton grew up in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta,^[5] where he completed his schooling at The Walker School in 2002.^[6] He majored in history at the University of Georgia.^[7] In 2010, he bought a camera while working as a bond trader in Chicago,^[8]