Humans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographs the Met Gala — vogue.com

Photographer Brandon Stanton’s portrait blog, Humans of New York, is a celebration of the people he encounters on a daily basis as he roams New York City with his camera: distinct individuals, all, but none of them as known to the world at large as the celebrity guests who walked the red carpet into the Met Gala last night. Nevertheless, he approached them the same as he does any stranger he meets in the street. “I’m a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged,” he said. Shooting the Met Gala, he acknowledged, “became a surprisingly interesting experience” because the nature of a gathering of such proportions meant he had to slightly alter his process. “Usually I approach someone alone out in the world. Here, I had to interrupt conversations, and people might have a cocktail in their hand.” The results, he discovered, from Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka (“who said very tender things about each other”) to Bryan Cranston, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, and Anna Kendrick, yielded refreshingly ordinary-extraordinary results. See the slideshow.

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