Yaum's Photo Diary

Interesting how this works, you come up with an idea then your mind is flooded with images, you remember old work that influences current wo...

I have been looking at some of Thomas Ruff's work lately. He did a series of head shots in color with average people, find the work kind...

Was driving home from work this morning and had a photo idea pop into my head. The photograph was a head and neck shot in color shot with th...

Read a qoute recently that was right on the mark. "Do not let success go to your head or failure go to your heart." I think the la...

Got the sex worker submission rejected by the VAAA gallery today. Feel depressed about it, you create work that you think is important, work...

On my last night in Vancouver I was walking in the downtown area when a 6 foot 2 ladyboy walked across the street and past me. It was intere...

Weird camera and strange to use, it sort of feels like you got it out of a box of cracker jacks as a bonus gift! I now own 3 of these techni...

Saw a show of Cibachromes when I was in Vancouver done by a Vancouver based photographer named Roy Arden. Loved the look of his small 7x7 in...

Well it looks like I am finally going to have a website for my photographs. It has taken me many years and many tries but I think I finally ...

Always loved the relaxed feeling and honesty of this image. It was a partial inspiration for my bargirl series of 2003. The direct look, the...

"In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love"

A Photograph = A single decisive moment in time captured for posterity with a camera.

Did 4 hours of darkroom work yesterday and another 4 today. I need to set up a routine like Brett Weston did. Everyday he would get up very ...

Got a nice book tonight at Costco, Ansel Adams 400 Photographs ($28.49). The book has many photographs from Adams that I have never seen bef...

Had a good photo club meeting last night saw some wonderful work especially from JG and the new members of the group. I was quite surprised ...

"I believe in human emotions very much. I believe if you stir human emotions, much can come out of it. I don't believe you stand a ...

Did my first 16x20 prints from the 8x10 neg Sex Worker Series and damn if 16x20 looks to small! I can only go up one more size to 20x24 pape...

As powerful a depiction of love as any photograph ever made. This speaks to me on so many different levels it is difficult to put into w...

Well am going to get a new camera!! It will probably be the Razzle 900, a hand converted Polaroid 1960s camera which will allow me to shoot ...

"I have always maintained formal perfection: the structure or composition of a photograph is just as important as the subject. This is ...

Da was such a sweet woman. I photographed her 4 or 5 times in 2003, she worked in a short time bar. A customer would meet her on the ground ...

Eddie Addams image of a Vietcong guerilla being executed on the streets of Saigon had a extremely strong impact on my desire to make photogr...

Recently started to make some large prints from my 8x10 Sex Worker Series negs, boy is it lots of fun playing with these large papers and ma...

What's the deal with colored mats? I see all the colors of the rainbow in my camera club and yet if you go to the galleries and museums ...

What makes a good judge? A person who has strong opinions and is not afraid to say what he/she feels. A judge that is afraid to say what the...

The Sex Worker Series was by far the hardest photography project I have undertaken from a physically demanding standpoint. By the time I got...

Exploitation = Utilization of another person or group for selfish purposes.

The Bargirl Series was shot over a 1 year period in 2003. For the first time I shot the photographs in color which I feel added a more reali...

This photograph was made in 1999 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I had traveled from my hotel to a slum area populated by the poor people of the ci...

I get so tired of that gobligooke art speak stuff you see in Artist Statements. A visual artist should let his work speak for itself and not...

Looking back at the two photographs of Long and Sau brought back a flood of memories. I have met perhaps hundreds of ladies working the bars...

With the dawn of the digital age well upon us I thought I would share some thoughts regarding what I consider real landscape photography. I ...

"All good art is abstract in its structure" Paul Strand I have been thinking about this quote in connection with my all time favor...

Talent=a special natural ability or aptitude Been reading a book called " Dialogue with Photography" tonight. The book got me thin...

I made a b/w photograph back in 2003 of an older Sex Worker in Bangkok named Nit. I have been thinking about that image a lot lately. I thin...

How do I find the time to do my work? It seems like all my time is being used in non photographic ways. Brett Weston had a daily routine tha...

I have been thinking alot about my latest project shot between April and June of 2007. The project was a series of portraits of Sex Workers ...