American - Photographer | March 1, 1984 -
I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.
Brandon Stanton
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When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.
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I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
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Being a doctor, lawyer in war-torn countries isn't easy when the infrastructure isn't there. The money, the food and education is not always accessible to achieve those dreams.
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'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.
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Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.
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Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
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The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
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I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
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I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.
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It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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