On how I approach strangers in the street, Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton, UCD, Dublin

Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the photoblog and, 1 New York Times bestselling book Humans of New York has received the James Joyce Award from the UCD Literary Historical Society at University College Dublin, Ireland. On setting out in the summer of 2010 to photograph 10, 000 New Yorkers and plot their photos on a map, Brandon says that he thought it would be really cool to create an exhaustive catalogue of New York City s inhabitants. Since then, Humans of New York has evolved into a catalog