Decided to start a new blog feature while I am in Thailand. "CREATURE OF THE DAY!" Todays winner, was a giant toad at the bottom of my apartment stairs. I was leaving for the Lotus shopping center at around 7pm when I saw a big round piece of mud on the ground, measuring about 3 by 4 inches. I was about to kick the piece of mud into the parking lot, then it HOPPED! It was a big ugly brownish black spotted toad!
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My time in a West Oakland with friends, 1985
I have been thinking of why I love photography, it comes down to something I have labeled "The Three Joys"
1) Creativity
The first joy is simply creating the work. Everything about the making of photographs I love. The initial ideas, the writing on the blog, the preparation of equipment, the research into my subjects, figuring out what I want to communicate. The camera tech stuff like composition, lens selection, cameras, figuring exposure, taking the shot etc. The post darkroom work where you swim with your prints bringing them slowly to life, creating something powerful and beautiful. I love it all.
It is so powerful a thing, you have a idea in your mind, there is nothing else, then YOU make it, you create it, it's fricking awesome stuff.
2) The People
The second joy is that photography has allowed me a way into so many peoples lives, so many different worlds. I get to meet people of all types, speak to them, eat with them, cry and laugh with them. For a while I get to live their existence to be them if you will.
I get to be a child in a slum in Bangkok or a drug addict in a ghetto in Oakland. I get to be a ladyboy sex worker in Pattaya or a man dying of cancer in Canada. Of course I am not really those people but I get a true flavor for those worlds, those experiences, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the joy and the sadness.
With photography I get a chance to live outside of the same same everyday meat and potato lives many of my friends and family live. Because I use a camera and make pictures all the doors to a wonderful life experience are open to me, photography is a window into everything!
3) The Photograph
The third joy is about the feeling you get when you accomplish your goals, when you see your final print in the developer, fix or hanging in a gallery. There is a special emotion there, a true satisfied happiness, something so uniquely rewarding. In the darkroom sometimes when I see the finished photo for the first time as it lays in the fixer tray I will let out hoops of joy. I will scream and shout. It is quite a spectacle! It's just the sheer high of that moment bursting out, the YES moment. When the photo is right and you see it for the first time it's the best feeling in the world, better than anything I have ever felt, the high of highs!!
"Ain't Photography Grand!"
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MONEY EARNED TO HELP THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURES
Money that will be used to directly help the people in our two photography projects, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUM and THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY $6334.67 ($6000 earned when 6 prints were added to the UNB permanent collection).
GOFUNDME, FAMILES/FREEWAY
Trying to raise $2000 to help the people under the freeway, and the families of the dump. TOTAL RAISED SO FAR = $325 —->$314.67 (after GOFUNDME fees).
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2022 "Families of the Dump"/The People Who Live Under The Freeway Donation Buys
Total donation money spent for the 2022 trip to the Mae Sot dump (THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP), Bangkok's Klong Toey Slum (THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY). Money spent on "The Families of the Dump" = $571.17 CAD (14982 Thai Baht) Money spent on "The People Who Live Under The Freeway = $144 CAD (3849 Thai Baht) General cases where money was spent to help others in need $15 CAD (401baht)
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"Families of the Dump" Donation Total
$4420.02 CAD
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- Video: Frying Beef
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- Blind Burmese Mother 80 Years Old
- The Families Are Teaching Me Burmese, My Head Hurts!
- Another Wonderful Day With The "Families Of The Dump"
- Video: MAY-MO-DEE
- Video: Families Working The Garbage October 26, 2017
- Potato Chips
- My Studies
- So So Tired!
- The Families Are Teaching Me Burmese!
- People Drinking, Children Eating From The Garbage
- More Hellos From Old Friends
- Exploring With The Motorcycle!
- A Great Day At The Dump
- Apartment Sounds.
- Freedom! Plus It's Fun!
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- Slept 10 hours
- Grocery Shopping Day 1
- Apartment Wild Kingdom
- Kub Rot Motocyke Cha Cha Mak!
- Gerry The Cook!
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- Running Donation Money Spent Total Listed At The T...
- 2 Pairs Of Rubber Boots Bought
- Video: Kids Playing In Fire Hose Water
- Driving A Motorbike, Getting Lost?
- More Tired Than Normal
- Movie Title? "The Children Of The Dump"
- I Got My Motorbike!
- Gerry!!! Gerry!!!
- Amazing First Day In The Dump
- Poem: "And You Call Me Coloured"
- Off To The Dump Tomorrow At 6AM
- Enough Gear?
- VIDEO: A View From My Kitchen Window-Many Noises,
- Dreams Of My Father
- Am In My Apartment In Mae Sot!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Rainy Day In Bangkok
- HF3535 Camera Latest Pictures
- Bought My Bus Ticket To Mae Sot
- Possible Mae Sot Room-$283 CAD A Month?
- Facebook: The Greatest Massage Of My Life
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- A Lazy Day-Massage Thoughts
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- Facebook: A Few Things Have Happened
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- $300 More Donated For The Families
- Camera Rental Money $250
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The Three Joys
1) Creativity
The first joy is simply creating the work. Everything about the making of photographs I love. The initial ideas, the writing on the blog, the preparation of equipment, the research into my subjects, figuring out what I want to communicate. The camera tech stuff like composition, lens selection, cameras, figuring exposure, taking the shot etc. The post darkroom work where you swim with your prints bringing them slowly to life, creating something powerful and beautiful. I love it all.
It is so powerful a thing, you have a idea in your mind, there is nothing else, then YOU make it, you create it, it's fricking awesome stuff.
2) The People
The second joy is that photography has allowed me a way into so many peoples lives, so many different worlds. I get to meet people of all types, speak to them, eat with them, cry and laugh with them. For a while I get to live their existence to be them if you will.
I get to be a child in a slum in Bangkok or a drug addict in a ghetto in Oakland. I get to be a ladyboy sex worker in Pattaya or a man dying of cancer in Canada. Of course I am not really those people but I get a true flavor for those worlds, those experiences, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the joy and the sadness.
With photography I get a chance to live outside of the same same everyday meat and potato lives many of my friends and family live. Because I use a camera and make pictures all the doors to a wonderful life experience are open to me, photography is a window into everything!
3) The Photograph
The third joy is about the feeling you get when you accomplish your goals, when you see your final print in the developer, fix or hanging in a gallery. There is a special emotion there, a true satisfied happiness, something so uniquely rewarding. In the darkroom sometimes when I see the finished photo for the first time as it lays in the fixer tray I will let out hoops of joy. I will scream and shout. It is quite a spectacle! It's just the sheer high of that moment bursting out, the YES moment. When the photo is right and you see it for the first time it's the best feeling in the world, better than anything I have ever felt, the high of highs!!
"Ain't Photography Grand!"
Contact Gerry
- Gerry Yaum
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Email Gerry: gerryyaum@gmail.com
"Can a photograph stop a war? Can it save a life? Can it lead to understanding, inspire someone to help, provide comfort and open the door to compassion?
Hope that it can.
Pray that it can."
Hope that it can.
Pray that it can."