Humans of New York

In 2010 Blogger Brandon Stanton started a photo blog that has since taken off. The name of the blog is called Humans of New York and has since gained over 16 million followers on Facebook. The main goal of the blog was just to shed light on those people of our world, though in September of last year he traveled Iraq, Iran and other parts of the Middle East to shed light on the Syrian crisis being viewed there. His posts are moving. They depict the reality that these people live every day.

From a city that was receiving 4000 syrian refugees daily in Jordan 

to 

A man that was tortured and thrown into prison for no reason. 

He posts the picture either on Facebook or on Instagram, and then he captions the photo with what happened at that moment or a brief snippet of the conversation he had with them. 

“What are your hopes for them?”

“We left our hopes back in Syria.”
(Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan)

This project has helped us view the world a little closer and a little more real. Many times with media from all over the world we forget how real everything is, and how real are those around us. Media can publish any story they want with their vendetta that "sex sells" and play it off to be the general situation that exists in an entire country. What the Humans of New York project has done is bring the entire world closer and help us all understand each other a little better. 

Here is the Facebook link to his page. 

https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/

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