Ian Brown: Searching for the American Dream

On today's episode, Ian Brown, photographer and author of American Dreams, discusses traveling across the country over twelve years to document and explore what it means to be an American.

Ian Brown is an award-winning photographer whose work focuses on the human condition. His portraits have been acclaimed for their simple depth of emotion and honesty. He survived cancer at the age of nineteen, a heart attack at age thirty-two, and being shot at in the middle of a civil war in Colombia while on assignment for Doctors Without Borders. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and a number of international publications. He lives in Toronto and continues to try perfecting making pancakes for his seven-year-old daughter.