COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | Dear New York

Dear New York
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We’re excited to be giving away two copies of Dear New York by Brandon Stanton to our GrownUps members!

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Dear New YorkAbout Dear New York

From the creator of Humans of New York, comes his most personal book yet

In 2025, Brandon Stanton, creator of Humans of New York and author of four number one NYT bestselling books, will publish his most personal work yet: Dear New York, a photographic love letter to the city he has embraced. Opening with a deeply moving prologue that reads like a train ride through the city, the book expands into nearly 500 full-colour pages of portraits and stories from the streets of New York. And, for the first time ever – unlike Stanton’s past books, which were curated from his massive body of online work – over 75 per cent of the stories in Dear New York have never been published before.

Stanton created the groundbreaking first volume of Humans of New York in 2013, only three years after beginning his photography career. Called ‘one of the most important art projects of the decade’ by The Washington Post, its unique combination of intimate portraiture and on-the-spot interviews spawned a style of storytelling that has become a hallmark of our digital age. Twelve years later, having now interviewed more than 10,000 people around the world, a seasoned artist returns home with a very personal mission: to use everything he’s learned to capture the city he loves most.

Author Information

Brandon Stanton is the writer and photographer behind Humans of New York, a storytelling platform with over 30 million followers. He has photographed and interviewed over 10,000 people in forty different countries around the world, including extensive series in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan. During this time, he has helped raise over $20 million in support of various causes and individuals that have been featured in his work. In 2013, Time magazine named him one of 30 Under 30 Changing the World. In 2015, he became the first social media creator to be granted an interview in the Oval Office with then-President Barack Obama. He is also the author of four number one NYT bestselling books, which have sold millions of copies around the world: Humans of New York (2013), Humans of New York: Stories (2015), Humans (2020) and Tanqueray (2022). He grew up in Atlanta and is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia. He currently lives with his wife and three children in New York City.

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