More Humans of Long Beach Book

Matt Roberts began peddling around Long Beach with a camera and notebook almost a decade ago, after relocating here from England.

There was no set plan at the time, he said, but the pictures he took of people he encountered in his travels piled up. Then, while surfing the internet one day, he came across a blog named “Humans of New York” that used candid portraits to humanize the metropolis.

Roberts took the model and turned it into a coffee table book — “Humans of Long Beach” — published in December 2018. MADE by Millworks sold the book and a portion of the proceeds was given to Christian Outreach in Action, a nonprofit serving people who are homeless in downtown Long Beach.

Now a sequel, “More Humans of Long Beach,” has been published and copies are on their way to Long Beach, Roberts said. The publisher is think®