In the summer of 2010 photographer brandon stanton began an ambitious project to single handedly create a photographic census of new york city the photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog humans of new york in the first three years his audience steadily grew from a few hundred to over one million in 2013 his book humans of new york based on that blog was published and immediately catapulted to the top of the ny times bestseller list it has appeared on that list fo