In 2013, HONY launched another Indiegogo campaign to help news cameraman Duane Watkins and his wife adopt a child from Ethiopia.

I have however got the Humans Of New York stories which I absolutely love and delve into every now and again just because so I think I will enjoy this first book when I get to open it on Christmas night. Each story paints a raw anecdote of viewerships of people old and young, rich and poor, black and white. NOTE: other restrictions can be a result of our security platform detecting potential malicious activity. By comparison, “Stories” betrays shallow notions of truth (achievable by dialogic cut-and-paste) and egalitarianism. Young adults were among the earliest social media adopters and continue to use sites at the highest levels, however usage by older adults has increased in recent years.

I bring along a very amateurish PowerPoint presentation, which I’m constantly tweaking because I never quite know where to begin the story.

From an older man perspective towards the young women on the left side and children playing on the fountain each holds the same life advice, happiness doesn’t determine by age number. The street background is consistent across each photo in the spread, as is the focus in each quote on what the individual is proud of: the subject on the left is proud of his guitar artistry, the subject in the top right is very proud and protective of her daughter, and the subject in the bottom right is proud of their model girlfriend. This contrast of texture grabs attention in expressing the outstanding personalities of New York has to offer. Humans of New York began when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project – to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The color coordination yellow is associated emotionally from confidence, Passion, intellect, honor, firm determination, and joy.He was a 2013 Time Magazine "30 people under 30 changing the world," an ABC News Person of the Week, told stories from around the world in collaboration with the United Nations, and was invited to photograph President Obama in the Oval Office. The book itself contains ethnic backgrounds dedicated a full page in regards to religion holiday captured from a stranger perspective. History told through the photographic lens has always been one of our most powerful, evocative mediums since its invention. The reformist journalist Jacob Riis, for example, used photographs—collected in books like “How the Other Half Lives”—to uncover the squalor of late-nineteenth-century tenement life on the Lower East Side, along the way becoming an innovator in the use of flash photography. Our ability to relate and empathize with people through seeing them and hearing their stories is what resonates most strongly in Humans of New York.

The project soon evolved, however, when Stanton started having conversations with his subjects and including small quotes and stories alongside his photographs. The result of these efforts was Humans of New York, a vibrant blog in which he featured his photos alongside quotes and anecdotes. As the quotes grew longer, and the interviews deeper, Stanton developed a signature storytelling style—one that blends the lure of urban voyeurism with an eye for the extraordinary detail in seemingly ordinary subjects.

Throughout Humans Of New York, particular images displayed without captions are durable to stand alone. Stanton’s project began as a blog, and HONY’s photos can be viewed on Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and in print. I know what it’s like, because I lived in a Chinese orphanage until the age of ten, and I wasn’t able to go to school because I couldn’t walk. Humans of New York is a portal into the lives of those that we walk by every day, but never stop to ask the questions that Stanton asked.