Hello, this is Pamela Anticle from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

You are listening to The Candid Frame.

You often hear people say that for them, photography is their passion.

They love making photographs. But there are some for them, photography is their passion. They love making photographs.

But there are some for whom passion alone isn't enough to explain their drive and commitment

to do the work that they do.

That's especially the case when they are bearing witness to horror and violence.

Patrick Brown's photography is not inspired by a singular drive.

His work and his reasons for creating it are as nuanced and complex as he is.

What's clear is the impact his photographs have, whether he's documenting the illegal trade

of exotic animals or the

flood of refugees fleeing genocide in Myanmar. He feels that his purpose in life is to be a witness

and to hopefully serve as a catalyst for change. What I do for living isn't a want. I need to clarify that. This is, this is a need to do

this to make me, you know, who I am. It's very important for me to be doing this type of work.

Yes, there is, there is selfish and there is, you know, personal ambitions. But the, the underlying

element to all this is, I think it's a need for the

world to see these types of things. And my vehicle to best portray or best tell this story is for a

visual mechanism of photography. Patrick's work often focuses on events in Asia, but the photographs have to be defined by more than just their geographic location.

They are stories that at their core each have a moral center, one that was shaped in Patrick from a very young age.

But one thing I'd highly dislike is a bully.

And bullies come in all different forms, you know, just like everything else.

And I think that's where the seed was planted for me when I was a young boy,

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