Less than a week ago, we shared how photographer Brandon Stanton had raised well over $1 million for a struggling Brooklyn school after a chance encounter with a 13-year-old boy named Vidal.
Stanton was invited onto The Ellen Show this week to talk to Ellen DeGeneres about the story alongside Vidal and his principal Ms. Lopez. It’s an interesting case of a photographer creating a life-changing national story as he’s shooting it.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.