Humans of New York at Hanover College!

Brandon Stanton is an American best selling author, photographer, and blogger. Since 2010, Stanton has taken hundreds of portraits of people living and working primarily in New York City accompanied by snippets of conversations about their lives. He is known as author of best selling book, Humans of New York, and is considered one of Time Magazine’s "30 Under 30 People Changing The World". Stanton is the founder of Humans of New York, a popular photojournalistic work that has over 17.8 million likes on Facebook and around 5.7 million followers on Instagram as of late August 2016. Stanton has also traveled extensively in the Middle East in 2014 to photograph people as part of a 50-day trip through 10 countries in the region under the auspices of the United Nations. In 2015, he traveled to Pakistan and Iran to do the same, and was even invited to the Oval Office to interview President Barack Obama. During his presentation, he will discuss the journey of the photography project. Stanton will be hosting a book signing after his presentation. Books will be sold in the Bookstore (in the Campus Center) during the night of the event!