Brandon Stanton
Photographer, Journalist
Brandon Stanton is the creative mind behind the infamous photoblog, Humans of New York. Since 2010, Stanton has developed a large following on social media for his portraits and interviews of the people of New York.
In 2024, Stanton was awarded the IMI Award and a $50,000 prize for "Mahsa 'Jina' Amini was murdered," a 54 part series as-told-to series with Parviz Zafari.

Award Winners Panel
Become an IMI member and hear what Alan Becker, Ronald Young Jr, Natalie Lynn, PJ Vogt, Peter Santenello, Shane Wighton, and Brandon Stanton have to say about their work and why they create

Brandon Stanton is the creative mind behind the infamous photoblog, Humans of New York. Since 2010, Stanton has developed a large following on social media for his portraits and interviews of the people of New York.
In 2024, Stanton was awarded the IMI Award and a $50,000 prize for "Mahsa 'Jina' Amini was murdered," a 54 part series as-told-to series with Parviz Zafari.



