Monday, December 23, 2019

Dad Post Comments

Here are some comments made on the dad post, at the 'Film Photography" page on Facebook.


    • Marcel Overwijn Sorry for your loss, strong pictures you got here tho, right in the feels.
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    • Neitsabes Yeduag Very powerful pictures.
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    • Eric Goldstein Thank you for sharing all of this.
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    • Gerry Yaum sharing dads story was a way to deal with better, also hiding behind the camera helped in the moment...you were forced to think of other things...https://gerryyaum.blogspot.com/.../artist-talk-success...
      Artist Talk A Success-A Nice Turnout
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      Artist Talk A Success-A Nice Turnout
      Artist Talk A Success-A Nice Turnout
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    • Shane Balkowitsch As an oncology nurse and photographer i have great respect for what u did
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      • Gerry Yaum thanks Shane...the credit goes to Dad, it was his last gift to me..allowing me to photograph him at the end.
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      • Gerry Yaum Shane Balkowitsch yes...I think he knew that it would help me deal with things..took pics of dad all his life...he enjoyed it most times..but at the end I think he saw it would help me get through his illness...it is still part of the healing...finding these forgotten negs, brings dad back to me in a very positive way..
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    • Mark Schimmer Thank you for sharing this, Gerry 🙏
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    • Phillip Dimor Powerful
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    • Bob Redd Thank you for your story and images.
    • Joseph Vargas Thank you for sharing and thank you for the courage to capture something like this. I am a true believer that cancer will be cured one day with AI. I'm 100% confident it will happen.
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      • Gerry Yaum yes...we can only hope...the more we talk about, the more we fight it...the more we can chase down this terrible disease...
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      • Joseph Vargas Gerry Yaum I lost several people to cancer I feel the same. A.I. and new methods of computing in the future will solve it. I'm sure of it. Its just a matter of time.
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    • Anil Mistry These are amazing. Death is as important as
      Life. I captured my dads last moments as he died in front of my eyes and they are the most powerful and important pictures I have.
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      • Gerry Yaum Thanks Anil...yes...understand 100%...most important photos of my lifetime also
    • B.L. Blazy Excellent, part of my career was medical photo.
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      • Gerry Yaum shooting medical photos must have been challenging emotionally, not sure I could handle it everyday..
      • B.L. Blazy Gerry Yaum There was a mix of reconstructive procedures and cosmetic. Following br ca patients and babies with skull deformities was most rewarding as they improved. Different every day, testing equipment, going from film to digital etc.
      • Gerry Yaum B.L. Blazy sounds rather amazing...never thought of that...photographing the recovery of people must have been rewarding...
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    • Mike Novak Sad and powerful. Losing your parents is the hardest part of being an adult, I think. It was brave of you to document this in such a respectful manner. I am sad for your loss. Thank you for sharing.
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      • Gerry Yaum Mike...yes agree the hardest part...life seems empty in a way when we cannot share it with them anymore....luckily my mom is still here..
    • Louli Létan I don’t know what to say to you.... be thankful for your pictures or be sorry for your words.... the pictures are really great but honestly the descriptions are very sad even if that’s in fact and your reality life. This is hard and heavy..... I thank to nurse of your daddy cause you mentioned to her.
      So, thank you for sharing your daddy’s history by two powerful shots.
      I hope that he will be better. 🌹👌🏻
      • Gerry Yaum one of the good parts of making photos is your much more involved in everything, allowing you to have the stories to tell...you remember so much more..your part of things
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      • Louli Létan Gerry Yaum exactement. ☺️🌹👌🏻
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    • Cemal Sagnak I wish I would have the time with my dad before he passed away on cancer . Unfortunately he had gone so fast , I was outside the country and when I called him I am on my return , the next day he was gone. Thank you for your images , it gave me some memories back to my dad
      • Gerry Yaum that is very sad Cemal, sorry to hear that, it must have been extra hard on you and your family......always felt lucky we had that time together, visited him almost everyday for 13 months. Sometimes it was only for 10 minutes before running to work others it was many hours together...
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      • Cemal Sagnak Gerry Yaum thanks for your kind words 🙏
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    • Mike Riches My Dad also died of cancer.
      We will find a way to beat .
      Your mom is a Angel.
      Takes a lot to bring a camera up to the eye under these conditions.

      My guess is that the lens is a 28mm or a 35mm.

      Thank you for laying these shots on the table.

      It’s what photography is all about.

      Take care
      Mike
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      • Gerry Yaum yes probably right on the lens...have both the 28mm f2 and the 35mm f1.4....for me the camera was sort of a shield...instead of thinking "My Dad Is Dying" I was partly distracted by the process of making the pictures...calculating, thinking about those camera, creative things instead. The hard part was printing them in a darkroom. Spending hours even days on a neg allows for lots of memory flashes and emotional moments in the dark. Your just staring at your dads face for hours on end under the red light, it was disturbing at times (thinking about losing him) and also joyful in a way, remembering the fun moments in your life together. Emotional either way.
    • Ann Trollinger Powerful images.
    • Robert Amoureux Sorry about the lost of your Dad. I really appreciated my kids visiting me in the hospital whenever I would go in. My parents and brothers and sisters would visit too. My wife seems like she was always there. This cancer (multiple myeloma) can be tough at times.
      • Gerry Yaum it has to help the healing when you see how many people love you....good luck Robert...
    • Ramses Ghodossi Powerful photos
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    • Jesse Gonzalez Powerful pictures. Your words made me tear up. I’m so sorry for your loss.
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      • Gerry Yaum thanks Jesse...and thanks for tearing up...it is good for all of us to do that now and again, it keeps us humble and human...
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    • Mark Brechbiel Incredibly moving but also very difficult for me. It's too reminiscent of when I lost my dad to cancer. The last images (in my head) of my dad are very similar to these
      • Gerry Yaum Yes Mark...very hard...had lots of folks say that when the photos were shown a few times in galleries...people telling me about their parents who they lost to cancer...remember one lady especially who spoke of her mom with Alzheimer's..hard to hear.. hard to say but good for all I think. What I find works for me is to remember the good times, remember the good memories. I used to dream of dad in a nightmare way, begging for him to not die etc in the dream. Now thou (almost 5 years later) the dreams and memories are mostly all good ones, we do things together laugh and smile.
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    • Dolores Restrepo Macias This is beautiful work, Gerry Yaum. Very moving. Bless your heart! And yes, best of luck getting back to Thailand for more shooting projects!
    • John W. Browning Thank you for sharing with us.
      I love the grain of Tri X. I suppose because so many great photo journalistic works have been done on it.
      I hope you are healing from your lose.
      I did the same thing with my mother who had Alzheimer’s.
      • Gerry Yaum yes John...the grain of Tri-x is special. I have started to shoot digital now as it allows for very fast ASAs, low light shooting but I will always shoot Tri-x because of the grain. I love the look of film especially Trii-x. Yes things are better now, …See More
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    • Laureen Carruthers So powerful. I lost my 48 year old friend two days ago to pancreatic cancer :(
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      • Gerry Yaum oh my gosh...so hard...cannot imagine that...dad was 81 almost 82 when he passed, we had a lifetime together. So sorry to hear of your loss Laureen, try to focus on and remember all the joyous times you shared. I find that helps a bit.
    • Nazar Melconian Sharing this must not have been easy. Taking these must not have been easy. Nothing about this is easy. It is certainly powerful and emotional to see. I am also torn with images taken by family of family members in their last moments of life...

      What m      ade you want to document these moments? What (if at all) your father's wish with regards to these photographs? The photos of your dad take me back to my own father and his last month of life... Your photos make me wonder if I would want to see these images of my own father, or would I rather leave those behind, and allow the images, and moments in my head to be just mine and mine alone? So sorry for your loss, bless your father.
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      • Gerry Yaum Yes Nazar, not easy to do any of this. I find thou that there are lots of positive things that come out of it. Here is one from tonight. I called my mother who is now living in an old age home. I told mom of the outpouring of positive comments in this post and she was so happy to hear it. She asked me to print out this all the comments, which I will do for her. In a way the dad pics sort of keeps him alive, and dad seems to be continuing to make a positive contribution on the lives of other people.
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      • Gerry Yaum As to making photos of family members in their last moments. I photographed my dad our whole life together so it seemed right to do it till the end. I asked my dad his permission to continue to photograph him even after he passed, and he agreed to it. He thought it was important to finish things, to tell the complete story, he also saw it as a way to remember. I always saw it as a tribute to my father. Making the photos also allowed me to hide a bit from all the pain, the tears etc. I cried plenty, sometimes uncontrollably but when making the pics there was less of that, making photography gave me something else to concentrate on. The darkroom time making the final prints, was very hard thou, lots of emotions there.
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      • Gerry Yaum Sometimes it is hard to look at the pictures again, and it might have been easier never to have made them but I think overall the creation of the pics was a good thing. Just look at what happened here. I find a old film in my darkroom during a clean up…See More
      • Nazar Melconian Thank you for this. ❤️
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    • Markus Hofstätter Wow, great respect.
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    • B.L. Blazy Just info.....I did volunteer work for a hospice in bw. Whatever they needed....annual report anything. Was asked to do a few family photos did bw and color in home. Last family photos humbling. Awesome experiences.
    • B.L. Blazy Some folks had no photos at all of family together. Went into inner city gangs knew the household had hospice care and did not bother me. As I drove down the street gang blocked my car. Once they knew where I was going, I asked them which house...they let me go. No trouble.
      • Gerry Yaum wow.....send me some links if you have them, would love to see the work...people usually support those doing good, glad the gang encounter worked out well for you...
    • B.L. Blazy Hardest photo was baby with mother. Baby was the hospice client.
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    • Mate Zemljić This is so epic! Stunning photos. I have also made photos of my father and his last days in hospital with my M6 and MM.
      • Gerry Yaum Mate...thanks for your thoughts, the M6 is a great camera for this type of shooting, small, quiet and built to the highest quality.
    • Roland Vanlerberghe Very sad but nevertheless great journalism photography.
      • Gerry Yaum Thank you Roland....always felt social documentary photography was very important, sharing the stories of peoples lives with the world..
    • Tom Hood I took care of both of mine until they're passing 11 months apart yesterday would have been dad's 90th birthday
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      • Gerry Yaum I am sure the understood the love you gave Tom....sounds like your dad had a very long good life..
    • Peter Martinez Sorry for your loss, my condolences 🙏
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    • John Morgan Totally righteous man
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