Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Submission Time Again!!

With the PAG show over I am now, out of exhibitions!!! There was talk of a traveling exhibition of the "Families of the Dump" photos through the Penticton Art Gallery. Not sure that is going to take place thou. I had also some hope of the photos being exhibited om Eastern Canada as part of the CONTACT photography festival in 2019. There were some promises made about that festival but it seems dead in the water at present. It looks like nothing is on the horizon exhibition wise!

Since everything has pretty much dried up, I need to get off my ass and do some more submitting of the various photo series made in the last 15 years. I think what I might do is submit multiple submissions to higher end galleries at the same time. I want to try to get into more quality facilities like the Penticton Art Gallery. Once you have tasted that level of professionalism and excellence it is hard to step back.

Note* I might try doing a Platinum-Palladium photo print version submission of one or several of these series.

Some possible photo series that could be submitted include:

- "Gerry Yaum Retrospective" b/w, color film and digital (1985-2018)

Child outside her slum home, Poipet Cambodia 2012
- "Families of the Dump", b/w film (Burmese refugee families living the Mae Sot Thailand garbage dump. 2013-18)

Child in the garbage, Mae Sot Thailand 2015
- "Families of the Dump", color digital (2018)

Dump family home, Mae Sot Thailand, 2018
- "Sex Worker Portraits" (portraits of sex workers done in studio, b/w film (2007-2009-2012)

Sex worker, Pattaya Thailand, 2007
- "My Fathers Last Days" b/w film, (2014-2015)
Dad, his last week, Edmonton 2015
- "Kodoku" b/w film, (solitude and loneliness in Japan 2017)

Man in subway, Tokyo Japan, 2017
- "Bargirl" color film (sex worker short time room and street portraits 1996-2018)

Lek , in short time room Pattaya Thailand, 2010
-  "Cambodian Brothel" b/w and color film, (portraits shot in a Poipet Cambodia brothel 2003)

Brothel worker, Poipet Cambodia, 2003
- "Klong Toey Slum Boxer" b/w film, (pictures made in Bangkok's Klong Toey slum boxing gym (2014-2018)

Bell, Muay Thai Boxer, Klong Toey Slum Bangkok Thailand 2015
- "Klong Toey Slum" b/w film. (pictures from Bangkok's Klong Toey slum 2014-2018)

Go (passed on), Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok Thailand 2014