James Goodman

@goodman_dandc

Brandon Stanton, who created the popular Humans of New York blog, will be the keynote speaker at Rochester Institute of Technology's homecoming weekend in October.

Stanton will be the RIT Student Government Horton Distinguished Speaker during the college's Brick City Homecoming & Family Weekend. His address will be given on Oct. 15 at the Gordon Field House and Activities Center on the RIT campus.

Stanton, 32, who is a native of Georgia, started Humans of New York as a photography project in 2010, with the goal of photographing 10,000 New Yorkers on the street. He soon began adding quotes and captions and eventually short stories about them.

His blog has about 17.7 million likes on Facebook and 5.5 million followers on Instagram.

Stanton's first book, Humans of New York, published in 2013, made The New York Times best-seller list, as did his second book, HONY: Stories, published in 2015.

In 2013, Time magazine profiled Stanton as one of "30 People under 30 Changing the World."

"The street photographer's work is being imitated all over the world," said Time.

Tickets for Stanton's speech are $5 for RIT students, $10 for RIT faculty, staff, alumni and families, and $15 for the general public. For more information, go to the Brick City Homecoming website, https://www.rit.edu/gcr/brickcity/

JGOODMAN@Gannett.com