ln 2025 Brandon Stanton creator of "Humans of New York" and author of four #1 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 five hundred full-color 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 more than 75-percent 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 ten thousand 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. A
Guyanese grandmother boxing beneath the Roosevelt Island Bridge. A political refugee practicing
Tai chi during a blizzard. A fentanyl dealer bringing his child to a playground on the Lower
East Side. Dear New York is a book filled with contradictions yet brimming with life. It is an
unprecedented portrait of the world's greatest city and a deeply personal tribute to the
people who provide its soul.
