How can random online browsing change
your outlook on day to day life?
When
asked this question, my mind is brought to two different places.
Humansofnewyork.com and Dearphotograph.com. Two websites that are dedicated to
pictures of simple to extraordinary people in their day to day life, some in
the present and some in the past.
Humans
of New York is a website dedicated to its title. Photos of people who walk the
streets of the big apple, with things to say. Not always extraordinary things
but, things. All of the photos are taken by Brandon Stanton, a photographer
that started his tumblr years ago not expecting to gain this much attention.
Stantons website has now grown from just a website, to a book, and a branch
site leading to the animals of new york, his wives page.
Dear
Photograph is another extraordinary site that takes a different spin on photos
that affect lives. Each photo taken on Dear Photograph is an old photo in a
spot, lined up with the current spot behind it. Sort of like a flashback. Each
story contains written notes from the person who took the photo behind it. Some
are serious and some are just plain fun, but all have meaning.
Each
of these sites I think can put positive things into someone who is looking at
them’s situation or life. Dear photograph could be a reminder how times have
changed, While Humans of New York could give the wisdom you’d never expect from
the most random of people you most likely will never meet in your life. Pretty
cool right?
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