HONY SOAPSTone

Once again I am tasked with finding the aspects of SOAPSTone (the exact names of the aspects can be found in the previous blog, SOAPSTone #likeagirl) for Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York.

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(The finding of the SOAPSTone)

The first aspect, speaker, is Brandon. He comes off as an approachable guy (gives an email link if you want to say hi or something like that) that can be spontaneous and a risk taker. The occasion is that he lost his job as a trader, so he decided to move to New York to take pictures of its inhabitants. The audience would have to be primarily social media users, since the main places you can see his photos are Tumblr and Facebook. It can also be people interested in the unique  people one can meet in New York, he did want to organize it by neighborhood. His purpose is to capture  the uniqueness of the people in New York, as well as, the telling of their stories (something that happened later on in the project. The subject is the unique and interesting inhabitants of New York, whose photos were taken primarily in the portrait style.  The tone of the piece varies based on the individual photo, but it is usually light-hearted, owing to that the photos are based on  interesting people that Brandon decided to photograph.