Your Best Phone Pictures of 2015

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 4, 2016

We asked you to send us the best picture you took on your phone in 2015…and you sent us over 600 images! So we tasked Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton with combing through your photos and selecting the cream of the crop.

Stanton, who recently published Humans of New York: Stories (St. Martin's Press, 2015), also talks about his documentary work covering 11 Syrian families preparing for resettlement in America.

Click here to see the full gallery of photo submissions, and check out Brandon's favorite images below!

#1st Place - Irene

Irene's best picture on her phone (of 2015): "One of my favorite photos of mine, not least because this was taken on my last solo overseas trip before the car accident that left me a permanent wheelchair user. I was checking out Porto da Barra just south of old town Salvador, Brazil, with some fellow travelers I'd met on the road. We found a colonial-era sea wall that some locals were doing crazy acrobatic jumps off of into the clear blue ocean below. While we were still working up the courage to take even your basic plunge, this boy up and did a running flip into the water. Now that's what I call living life!
(Irene/@thisisirenes on Instagram)

 #2 - Ted

Ted's best picture on his phone (of 2015): "reflections in the Delaware Raritan Canal"
(Ted/@photoodyssey on Instagram)

 #3 - Gina

Gina's best picture on her phone (of 2015)
(Gina/@ginawfox on Instagram)

 #4 - Debbie

Debbie in Brooklyn's best picture on her phone (of 2015): "Spider web stoops in Brooklyn"
(Debbie/@debbieme on Twitter)

#5 Fan Favorite (Most Votes) - Nick

Nick's best picture on his phone (of 2015): "Re-gram of the #BestOnMyPhone photo - driving through #TheCatskills during a light morning rain."
(Nick)

 

 

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