Celebrity Biographies
Brandon Stanton Net Worth, Girlfriend, Personal Life, Career & Biography
Profession: | Artistes / Designers |
Date of Birth: | 01 mars 1984 |
Age: | 36 |
Net value: | 9,5 millions |
Place of birth: | Marietta, Georgia |
Height (m): | 1,85 |
Religion: | Christianity |
Relationship Status: | Unknown |
Brandon Stanton is probably familiar to you if you’re familiar with “Humans of New York,” a popular photojournalism page on social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. Brandon is the creator and owner of the page that created a social media movement.
Stanton is also the author of the book Humans of New York which helped him get on the New York Times “30 Under 30 People Changing The World” list. Over time, Stanton made hundreds of portraits of people living and working primarily in New York. Also read about Murad Osmann.A
BRANDON STANTON: EARLY CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION AND CAREER
Brandon Stanton was born on March 1, 1984 in Marietta, Georgia, which makes her nationality an American. Stanton went to Walker School in 2002, after which he went to the University of Georgia and majored in history. In 2010, Stanton bought a camera while working as a bond trader in Chicago. He took some pictures of downtown Chicago and as he lost his job he decided to pursue photography full time, after which he moved to New York.
Brandon decided to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers while tracing their portraits on the city map. During this time, he survived on paychecks from friends and family to pay the rent. He started posting these photos on Facebook on the page called Humans of New York in 2010. Initially, he started with a photo of a woman with an additional quote from her. Then he turned the trend into photographs with full interviews of New York locals.
He managed to publish a book later in the year 2013, with the same name, Humans of New York and successfully sold around 30,000 copies. It also became number one on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller list. Additionally, Stanton was also named Time Magazine’s “30 People Under 30 Changing the World”.
BRANDON STANTON: GIRLFRIEND AND PERSONAL LIFE
Although his work touched the hearts of millions around the world, relatively less information about Brandon’s personal life exists to date. Stanton often mentioned his girlfriend during his interviews, but never really revealed about her in any of them.
Since he uses social media as his photojournalism page, there aren’t many personal posts from Stanton, making it harder to know exactly who this creative artist is dating after all. We will therefore have to wait for him to decide to tell us one day.
BRANDON STANTON: FORTUNE
Brandon had a huge impact on his work. On Facebook, his page has over 18 million likes meanwhile, on his Instagram, he has 7.8 million followers following HONY’s stories. Stanton got several amazing opportunities after his success. He was at the White House to meet the former president and his family. Likewise, he also traveled to the Middle East to photograph people there as part of a humanitarian project.
Stanton’s salary and income are not exactly set, but he has an estimated net worth of $9.5 million that he has raised from his HONY series of projects alone. Likewise, there were rumors that he was soon to release a series documenting all of New York’s stories.