In 2025, Brandon Stanton — creator of Humans of New York and author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers — will release his most personal project to date: Dear New York, a photographic love letter to the city he calls home.
The book opens with a powerful, lyrical prologue that unfolds like a subway ride through the city, before expanding into nearly five hundred full-color pages of portraits and stories captured across New York’s streets. For the first time, unlike his previous books drawn largely from his online archive, more than 75% of the stories in Dear New York are entirely new and unpublished.
Stanton first created the groundbreaking Humans of New York in 2013, just three years after beginning his photography career. Described by The Washington Post as “one of the most important art projects of the decade,” its fusion of intimate portraiture and spontaneous interviews helped define a new era of digital storytelling.
Twelve years later, after speaking with more than ten thousand people around the world, Stanton returns to the city that started it all — this time with a deeply personal mission: to use everything he’s learned to portray the place he loves most.
A Guyanese grandmother boxing beneath the Roosevelt Island Bridge.
A political refugee practicing Tai Chi in the middle of a blizzard.
A fentanyl dealer taking his child to a playground on the Lower East Side.
Dear New York is full of contradictions yet overflowing with humanity — an unprecedented portrait of the world’s greatest city, and a heartfelt tribute to the people who give it its soul.
Brandon Stanton: Dear New York
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
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Author: Brandon Stanton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date:
2025
Print Length: 480 pages
Language: English
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