Disaster in the Darkroom Trailer

Lost all my Silver Nitrate from my Acrylic Tank. It leaked and I lost about 4-5 litres of the solution. I have travelled with it loaded in the tank for several years now, with no issues. This time it leaked from the tank, through the 5 inch foam surrounding the tank and through the hard tack box I used to project the tank during travel.

Bloody awful, hundreds of dollars in silver lost! $500? $800?, who knows. So f-cking depressing.

Spent the night cleaning up the mess as best I could. I cannot transport the silver that way. It will need to be stored in lab bottles, in the special foam cooler I made up. This will require more time and effort, each time I shoot. I will have to unload the silver solution from the bottles, and then put it back again each time.

I have lost faith with silver nitrate tanks, at least the larger ones. This i]is the second time I have had a leak.  I might try doing my silver work in trays from now on.

Note* I made up a fresh 5 litre bottle of Silver Nitrate solution afterwards, to replace the lost one. I have about 16 litres of thee stuff.

The Victoria Camera Club TALK INFO

The Victoria Camera Club asked for more info, for the coming talk I will do for them via ZOOM (a PowerPoint Presentation).

Wrote this up for them and sent them a bunch of pics from the 2 projects and some selfies.

Hey M... A... and R..., here is what you wanted.

THE TALK WILL BE 7- 9PM VICTORIA TIME ON JANUARY 14, CORRECT? We will use ZOOM, allowing me to show my POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.

TALK INFORMATION

The two projects in the talk are, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY and THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP.

THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY deals with the lives of Thais living in the notorious Khlong Toei slum, in Bangkok, Thailand. THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP tells the stories of Burmese refugee families living and working in the Mae Sot, Thailand garbage dump. I have been working on both projects for over a decade. 

A very important element of the talk and the MAIN THEME, is how photography can be used as a FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE WORLD. We (donators and myself) do both photography and donation work both under freeway and in the dump. We have raised thousands of dollars to help those in need. The photographic work has had a positive effect on the lives of the subjects.

The talk contains photos (film and digi imagery) of the people, details the donation work done, and contains many first hand personal stories and memories.

BIO

Self taught social documentary photographer. Worked 31 years as a nighttime security guard in Edmonton. The name YAUM is a pseudonym, Yaum in Thai means "Security Guard". I prefer to let the photos be about my subjects, not myself.

Attached are some photos from the talk and a couple of headshots.

Thanks Gerry

PS...if there is anything else you need, please ask.

THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP

THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY

Silly Me