I'm A Homosexual...

"I'm a homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me".
Photographer Brendon Stanton has, for the last five years, been making images featuring
Humans Of New York.
This photo of a beautiful brave and sad young man has got to be one of the most poignant...

We Met In Afghanistan...

We met in Afghanistan.
Anything is possible.
From Humans of New York.
If you can dream it, you can do it...

Are You My Type...

'I’d have been a great mother, 
but we met too late for that. 
I didn’t meet him until I was 42. It was the first time either of us had been married.'
'How’d you meet?'
'I was with some friends in the park one day. 
I’d recently stopped dating a sociopathic nut ball, and I’d just gotten out of therapy, 
so I was feeling pretty adventurous. 
He rode by on a bike, and stopped for a moment to listen to a band that was playing. 
My friend bet me $5 that I wouldn’t go talk to him. He was wearing a blood donor shirt that said: ‘Are you my type?’ 
So I walked up to him and said: ‘Yes I am.’
Another slice of life from Humans Of New York.
There's many more here...

Brandon Stanton's Wonderful Humans Of New York Blog...

I got my first glimpse into Humans Of New York on Lloyd's Blog the other day.
New York is a fantastic place and one of my favourites having been there a few times.
I just had to look to see if I recognised anyone.
Brandon Stanton began HONY back in the summer of 2010 as a result of an idea to construct a photographic census of the city's diverse and colourful inhabitants.
He set out to photograph ten thousand New Yorkers and plot their photos on a map of the city. The idea morphed into something different.
He began collecting little stories, quotes and began including them alongside the images.
Brandon's wonderful vibrant Humans Of New York Blog is the result.
It's a great blog. It's so, human...