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Humans of New York (HONY) ist ein Fotoblog und der Titel eines Buches mit Straßenportraits und Interviews, die vorwiegend in New York City aufgenommen wurden.

Der Blog wurde im November 2010 vom Fotografen Brandon Stanton gegründet und hat sich seitdem große Aufmerksamkeit in den sozialen Netzwerken erfahren. Das Buch stand über 30 Wochen auf der Bestseller-Liste der New York Times. Durch den großen Erfolg des Blogs inspiriert sind mittlerweile weltweit zahlreiche "Humans of..."-Seiten entstanden.

Im März 2016 veröffentlichte Stanton auf Facebook einen offenen Brief an Donald Trump, der über 2,3 Millionen Likes erhielt und über 1,1 Millionen mal geteilt wurde, was ihn zu einem der meist-geteilten Posts in der Geschichte von Facebook machte.

Stanton hat Bilder in mehr als 20 verschiedenen Ländern aufgenommen, darunter Bangladesch, Iran, Irak und Pakistan. Im Januar 2015 interviewte er den damaligen US-Präsidenten Barack Obama im Oval Office. Ebenfalls 2015 berichtete Stanton in einer Kooperation mit dem Hohen Flüchtlingskommissar der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) über die Flüchtlingskrise in Europa 2015. Er legte dabei einen Fokus auf die emotionalen Erfahrungen der Menschen, die vor den Bürgerkriegen im arabischen Raum geflüchtet waren. Im September 2016, zwei Monate vor der Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 2016, interviewte er die Kandidatin der Demokratischen Partei, Hillary Clinton.

Blog

New York City

Brandon Stanton gründete den Blog im November 2010. Seine ursprüngliche Idee war es, 10.000 Portraits von New Yorkern aufzunehmen und diese auf einer Karte der Stadt abzubilden. Dieses Projekt entwickelte sich allerdings weiter, als Stanton begann, mit den porträtierten Menschen in eine Konversation zu treten und kurze Zitate oder Geschichten mit den Bildern veröffentlichte. Dieser neue Stil führte zu einem enormen Wachstum des Blogs. Mit Stand von September 2020 hat der Blog mehr als 18 Millionen "Gefällt mir"-Angaben.

Weltweit

Im Dezember 2012 verbrachte Stanton zwei Wochen im Iran, um dort lebende Menschen auf der Straße zu porträtieren. Nach dem Anschlag auf den Boston-Marathon reiste er ebenfalls für zwei Wochen nach Boston, um dort Bilder aufzunehmen.

Im August 2014 startete Stanton eine 50-tägige "World Tour" in Kooperation mit den Vereinten Nationen, bei der er Bilder und Geschichten in zwölf Ländern aufnahm: Irak, Jordanien, Israel, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Kenia, Uganda, Südsudan, Ukraine, Indien, Nepal, Vietnam und Mexiko.

Im August 2015 reiste Stanton für den Blog nach Pakistan.

In August 2015, Stanton traveled to Pakistan for the photoblog. He used his work there to raise awareness of Syeda Ghulam Fatima's efforts to help Pakistani brickworkers that had become bonded laborers.

In association with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Stanton went to Europe in 2015 to capture migrants and refugees seeking asylum in Europe from their homelands, most of which are war zones. This resulted in much support, donations, and awareness of the European migrant crisis. Stanton stated in a BBC interview that he had to use a new type of interviewing style for these subjects, because he did not think it pertinent to ask about their past or future.

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. Giving his reasoning, he said "I think what is helpful are these doses and reminders of normal life, normal happiness, normal joys, normal love."

Books

Stanton's first book based on the photoblog, also titled Humans of New York, was released in October 2013. Published by St. Martin's Press, the book sold 30,000 copies in preorders alone. Stanton was interviewed ahead of release by Bill Weir for an ABC News Nightline story titled "'Humans of New York': Photo Gone Viral". Vorlage:As of, the book had been on The New York Times Best Seller list for 31 weeks and was the number one Non-Fiction Best Seller for a week in 2013 and again in 2014.

In October 2015, Stanton released his second book, Humans of New York: Stories, which focused more on the stories collected in his work. The book debuted in November 2015 at number one on The New York Times Best Sellers Nonfiction List of 2015, and was number one again the following month.

Philanthropy

Humans of New York has launched a number of highly successful charitable efforts. Following Hurricane Sandy, Stanton traveled to the hardest-hit neighborhoods in New York City to photograph the residents, volunteers, and first responders who had lived through the destruction. Stanton then partnered with Tumblr founder David Karp to launch an Indiegogo fundraiser for the victims of the storm. With an original goal of Vorlage:Usd, they raised $86,000 in the first 12 hours and reached a total of $318,530 by the end of the campaign. All of the proceeds went to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a family-run charity that played a major role in the Hurricane Sandy Relief efforts.

In 2013, HONY launched another Indiegogo campaign to help news cameraman Duane Watkins and his wife adopt a child from Ethiopia. The goal of $26,000 and was exceeded in 90 minutes and the campaign raised a total of $83,000. Excess funds went to an educational fund for the adopted boy and his sister.

In 2014, Stanton set up an Indiegogo campaign to send a boy he had photographed and his family on vacation to a ranch in Colorado after learning that the boy's dream was to own a horse. Within 15 minutes of posting the fundraiser on his Facebook page, the $7,000 goal was met and it raised a total of $32,167. After paying for the trip, Stanton donated the remaining $20,000 to the New York Therapeutic Riding Center, an organization that helps provide horse rides to children with disabilities.Vorlage:Primary-inline

Datei:From Brownsville, Brooklyn to the Oval Office- Vidal Meets the President.webm In January 2015, Stanton photographed and interviewed a 14-year-old boy from Brownsville, Brooklyn, Vidal Chastanet, who said his greatest influence was his school principal at Mott Hall Bridges Academy, Nadia Lopez. Stanton used Indiegogo to raise over $1,419,509 in donations from 51,476 contributors that provided Mott Hall students opportunities such as college campus visits, summer programs, and a scholarship fund. As a result of the campaign, Stanton, the student, and his principal were invited to visit the White House in 2015. Later in 2015, Stanton visited Pakistan and Iran for a traveling photography series during the month of August. He concluded the section on Pakistan by highlighting Syeda Ghulam Fatima, the leader of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, an organisation that works to free bonded labourers that were victims of predatory lending practices. Stanton's subsequent Indiegogo fundraiser raised over Vorlage:Usd for the organisation.

In May 2016, Stanton shared a series of interviews with pediatric cancer patients at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Following the series, he launched an Indiegogo campaign to support pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering as well as psychological and social support services for patients and their families. In the first three days more than 10,000 people donated over $350,000, and in three weeks the campaign raised over $3.8 million from more than 100,000 people. In August 2016, in a photograph series titled, "Invisible Wounds," Stanton featured interviews with American veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The series partnered with the nonprofit, Headstrong Project, to highlight the mental health struggles veterans experience. An associated fundraising campaign for the non-profit exceeded the $100,000 goal in a few hours and continued to raise more than half a million dollars.

Stanton visited Rwanda in September 2018. Beginning on October 16, 2018, he began covering the genocide stories on his site through a series of interviews and photos from persons who were affected. On his site, he stated his objective: "During my week in Rwanda, I focused on the stories of people who took a moral stand during the genocide. These are members of the Hutu majority who risked their lives to shield and protect Tutsis. In Rwanda they are known as ‘The Rescuers.'" In conjunction with the series, he hosted a GoFundMe campaign to benefit the Gisimba Orphanage in Rwanda and the planned but yet-to-be-built Gisimba House in Uganda. He supplemented the campaign with Vorlage:Usd from HONY's Patreon fund, as well as with Vorlage:Usd for every donation beyond the 5,000th donation. The campaign reached its goal of Vorlage:Usd in 18 hours. Stanton also supported another campaign of the Little Hills organization, which plans build Rwanda's first children's hospital.

DKNY

In 2013, a fan noticed that HONY's photos had been used without permission in DKNY's window display at a store in Bangkok. After learning of the infringement, Stanton publicly asked DKNY to donate Vorlage:Usd in his name to the YMCA chapter in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City. The donation request was shared over 40,000 times on Facebook, and after heavy pressure on social media sites, DKNY issued a public apology and agreed to donate Vorlage:Usd. Stanton used Indiegogo to raise an additional $103,000.

Humans of New York: The Series

On August 29, 2017, the documentary Humans of New York: The Series, based on the blog, premiered on Facebook Watch as part of that premium content platform's launch. From 2014 to 2017, Stanton interviewed over 1200 New Yorkers on video. Season one included thirteen episodes which ranged from fifteen and twenty-five minutes in length and touched on common themes across the interviews. As of December 2017, it was the most followed series on Facebook Watch.