Here’s how Brandon Stanton spends several hours each day: He walks up to total strangers in New York City, requests permission to take their pictures and then asks questions so personal they might make Oprah Winfrey blush.
Most people brushed him off. “It was very emotionally draining at first,†Mr. Stanton said. “I’d be really disappointed when people would say no.â€
Hiking up a leg of his paint-flecked jeans, he showed Mr. Stanton a scar on his calf. The accident, Mr. Lora said, “ruined my life.†He paused. “I don’t know why I’m telling you this,†he said.
New York Times story about the new best-seller, ‘Humans of New York,’ by Brandon Stanton
He walks around New York City and asks strangers to pose for him. STRANGERS. And he does it a lot, and he talks to them, and now he has a best selling book.
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