Photo by Brandon Stanton
This ____ing every ____ in New York City thing is getting a little played out, but here we go again! Photographer Brandon Stanton would like to photograph "every interesting person" in the city for his project titled Humans of New York. He's already got 1,400 portraits up on his website (pretty sure we spotted Lady Gaga amongst them), where he explains:
Humans of New York is a multi-year project to construct a photographic census of the city of New York. The team consists of one man, who walks the streets several hours a day, looking for interesting people, and taking their photograph. Currently, the project is in the gathering phase. The goal is 10,000. Photos are uploaded as they are collected, and arranged by date. When a substantial body of portraits has been gathered, they will be grouped by neighborhood and displayed geographically. Upon completion, an interactive map will show every neighborhood in New York through the faces of its inhabitants.
Currently there's someone trying to draw every person in New York, and another working on drawing every building in New York. But who will document our rats?
