Patrick Huy

💌 This is a love letter to Motherhood: to the women who chose it and the women who had to, ft. my blood mom. While women are highlighted these days more for professional successes and achieving independence, I wanted to take this opportunity gifted by @photovogue to highlight mothers, who, like mine, have the majority of their life's work represented by that their children survived---many times at the sacrifice of their mother's own youthful life. Nobody talks about how mothers lose 18+ years, per child, of the freedom to chase dreams, travel, go out, build hobbies that aren't based in the home. To do that in the prime years of your youth? That's your entire life--a sacrifice I honor here. When I ask my mom about her hobbies, who she is, what she does for fun, or who is she friends with, she doesn't have an abundant answer. I never understood until realizing that the prime years to form those were given to my sister & I. It's an ultimate sacrifice impossible to pay back that children & society seldom gives enough credit to. She grew up eating plain rice & fish sauce as a primary meal, because her family lost everything in a big fire. She also faced the Vietnam war and abuse & infidelity, but chose courage & resilience and didn't abandon me or my sister, raising us with a single income: 3 mouths, 1 paycheck--at the cost of her own luxuries and nutrition, often barely weighing 90 lbs. If you look at the 5th photo, you'll see the change from when I was born until now: all her youth. She also seldom smiles, which is why these photos are special, because after us, she found purpose again in mothering her dog: Nugget, who returns maximum gratitude: the one gift a parent wants--that their children make it and acknowledge them. Every morning before 5am work, she walks him with a cane in one hand, because there are coyotes and one was inches away from snatching him one time. It took 4 days to figure out how to write a "love letter" with a photograph, not just show Love. It was also important to me to show her age & show the life she's gone through. If you hold the title of Mother, these photos are for you. Thank you @photovogue for this #PVMondayLoveLetters

I was taking photos in Los Angeles Chinatown, when a man struck a memorable conversation with me, and I didn't realize I had my glasses recording until it beeped. He tells me about his love for photography, his daughters, his late wife, and his recent father & brother. And then we take each other's portraits. Connection in LA is heavily wanted, but heavily yearned for how uncommon it is. While everyone's stressed, lonely, and trying to make their dream come true. Everyone's too worried about looking the part, or paying their next bills, to be able to let their walls down and connect, but everyone yearns for community. I think it's just something we have to proactively take part in as a collective, together, and take initiative, like Dale does here, to bridge that gap and have those open, kind conversations. You never know who you'll meet, or how those brave chances can change your day or your life. Thanks for talking to me that day, @mrdmf1 , and sharing your story; it changed my day, and I hope it changed yours. Looking forward to shooting photos with you officially soon! 🎞️: @kodak gold200 #connection #conversations #community #art #photography

I was walking around in Arts District, in downtown LA, on my way to see if the museum was open during the rain, and I saw a girl up ahead, at the street corner, looking down at a large & wide puddle, trying to calculate if she'd be able to jump over it successfully. Obviously that's a perfect rain day photo. Eventually I chased her down and found she was on her way to grab a rain day wine bottle at the local shop the next block over to take home for dogsitting & waiting for her sister. Had to photograph the kodak moment 🤌🏼📸 - - - 📸: @fujifilmx_us x100vi 🙏🏼 #losangeles #streetphotography #fyp #photography #rain #fujifilm #kodak

Granted, it's far from finished, balanced, or unproblematic... as there is a long, long way to go to create some adequate equitability of peace, opportunity, & wellness for people of every ethnic background globally... but I think we've made progress. At least from the bottom. It's sometimes crazy to think slavery was only abolished 150 years ago, women were only granted equal constitutional right in 1972 (50 yrs ago), and Asians only have gotten widespread representation in media within the last 10 years. The truth is: total equality will never exist, logically. Such a thing would only be possible if robots or another entity overtook the human mind and create perfect equality. As long as we have varied looks & every individual has a different preferred way of living, there will be struggle, tug, and "sides" being created, out of a desire for self-preservation and in fear of what is unfamiliar. But, with work, and the realization that (as Aristotle once proposed suggested in 400BC aka 2,425 years ago) as citizens of planet Earth: we would achieve best likelihood of long-term survival as a whole, and happiness as a whole, by working together, sharing resources, and sacrificing maximal personal gain, than we would by hoarding and playing selfishly, perhaps we can achieve some semblance of good living conditions for all people everywhere. #humanity #equality #philosophy #aapi #criticalthinking Tagging some Asian-owned Businesses I enjoy below, because the work for progress is always on-going: @steep_la @eat.salo @thedumplingomakase @sassygirlweddings @movement.lifestyle @standstill.tea @nomads__table @kobo.table @nabi_experience @rooted.fare @flybyjing @626hospitalitygroup @bloomsandpoems @zhuology.ceramics @cafetondo @tea__at__shiloh @re__caphe @contracoffeeandtea @flowsandcreates @nin___cupcakeshop @sportyandrich @emilyoberg @loopespressoclub @kissa_cora @double_dragonbbq @familystylefest @alilpeckish And if you enjoyed this, follow me for more think-pieces, growth, & art content. 🙂‍↕️🙏🏼🌱💌

Sometimes the internet has us thinking life is about the great & grand-- big wins & achievements, but 99% of life isn't spectacle. Even for an Olympic athlete: Gold at the Olympics is a performance that's only minutes-long, and even for them: most of life is not on stage. Life is the everyday. And how ours will turn out: largely depends on how special we can make what is otherwise just a day that's easily looked-past. #thoughts #perspective #writing #wisdom #life Mother's Day 2026.05.10

#poetry I learned this in my 30s, but wish I knew this in my 20s: 👉🏼 The one isn't a perfect person the one is just someone who tries. Who gets it right sometimes and doesn't other times. But who doesn't give up and keeps on leaning in and putting in. For the first time in human history, options-exposure via social media algorithms showing us only the most viral highlights of others' lives: tempts us to devalue what we already have, in the face of it seeming like others are living lives of constant excitement while we fail to realize that even the real lives of those in the highlights have their highs & lows and their rushes and lulls, too. I don't think your brain was made to wrestle with what technology is exposing it to, but if this is something you're dealing with, hope this perspective provides valuable food for thought. -- #writing #love #relationships #romance Found this video from months back when I was practicing memorizing & reading old poems. Ultimately I opted not to share it back then, but I think this'll help some out there. Let me know if it's beneficial 📸 Cover Photo: @fujifilmx_us x100vi at an outdoor Jazz Night last month in Chinatown, LA

If you've ever looked at yourself and only seen what's wrong... it's not about the changes you need to make extrinsically. 👈🏼 🤔 The world tells us we aren't good enough, as we are, and it tells us to look all of these other shiny things we could buy, be, and achieve that are better than what we have going on right here & now, and that throws us on a hamster wheel that runs us into our graves... never finishing, never reaching the goal, never content with the ground we're already blessed to be on. 🪦 💌 You won the day you were born. Your parents think so. Your friends think so. People who don't even know you: think so. They see you in a better light than you see yourself sometimes, and your mission is to see yourself the way those who love you do. All of the things you enjoy that you keep secret because the world has made you feel ashamed of them: embrace them. ✊🏼 Embrace what you're good at, and be honest & light-hearted about what you're silly at and working on. 🤲🏼 It's okay to not be amazing at certain things. Just show up. Be you. Learn, grow, and accept yourself for who you are. You'll be better at that, 10 out of 10 times, than trying to be good at being someone else. 💯 This perspective is something I have now at 37 that heals who I was at 10. Thankful. 👊🏻 💡 bonus: what's something about yourself you could be better at accepting? #philosophy #perspective #motivation #growth #positivity

📸 @charityjoybrown for @thesundropgarden at @pacificelectric.la performing unreleased tracks from her upcoming album Captured 2026 04.24 ✋🏼🙂‍↕️ #musicians #concerts #photography #artists #music

Too much living will always beat too much sleeping when you look back at the end of the road. #writing #philosophy #life #perspective #earthday

From having to sell rights to his entire old catalogue and fighting through critical health setbacks to headlining Coachella's biggest year in the last decade--arguably being the reason this year's festival is as momentous & sold-through. His survival and persistence is proof that a man can reject the system, transcend material & grift, and headline the most iconic festival in popular culture. This show was a symbol that it's possible, and possibility is a floodgate for everyone following in his footsteps. #justinbieber #coachella #masculinity #philosophy #relationships @lilbieber

sneak peek from our collab dinner this past weekend dish featured: soy marinated amaebi served with nori rice, cured egg yolk, farmers market sprouts

Celebrating the grand opening of @ilovelaflea . LA Flea has been the iconic fashion flea market of LA for the past few years, where some of LA's most fashionable people frequent every weekend, including surprise visitors like @madisonbeer . When I heard @chefstephentrujillo was getting a coffee residency there, I had to swing by for coffee and also check out the fashion. Here are some people from a quick 25 min photo session with my @fujifilmx_us x100vi. I've been into fashion since I was 13--more in admiration of style, self-expression, and outward show of originality. Everything I do is about framing & perspective, and I think fashion plays a large role in a person's self-image and self-image plays a large role in how we show up in our lives, so I think everyone local in LA or who visits LA should really make a stop at @iloveLAflea at least once and upgrade their wardrobe or check out where fashion in LA's going--LA Flea folks are always a few steps ahead of the trends. #photography #fashion #portraitphotography #editorial #LAflea LA flea is now open weekends 10-5pm at 2521 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.