As more Americans have adopted social media, the user base has grown more representative of the broader population. Giving his reasoning, he said "I think what is helpful are these doses and reminders of normal life, normal happiness, normal joys, normal love. Stanton, who grew up in Georgia and briefly worked as a bond trader, started Humans of New York almost immediately after arriving in New York City, for the first time, in his mid-twenties. In August 2016, in a photograph series titled, "Invisible Wounds," Stanton featured interviews with American veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 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.

I loved all the Pics but particularly those of kids and their microfashions:-)There were one or two subjects which were given more attention and this might be my only beef - if I had to have one.During the COVID-19 pandemic Stanton accepted submissions from anyone in the world for the first time, asking his followers for "their most amazing, uplifting stories" to inspire people during the crisis. Stanton went on a photography tour of Chicago and Pittsburgh where he experimented with different types of photography.

It is not, Bourke-White and Caldwell seem to say, enough simply to see the faces of one’s destitute countrymen. The world learned that the most influential person in Vidal’s life was Nadia Lopez, his principal at Mott Hall, and, after subsequent HONY posts featuring Lopez, marvelled at her admirable devotion, amid the imagined grayscale of still-ungentrified Brooklyn, to boosting the spirits, and lifting the ambitions, of her students.In HONY, there is often a caption with only a sentence or two while HONY: Stories, each story was usually a paragraph long.