Yaum's Photo Diary

Daily Polaroids Detail Last 18 Years of NYC Man's Life Saturday, May 31, 2008 For 18 years Jamie Livingston kept a record of every day o...

This photo has sort of an interesting tale to it, I thought I would share the story. The year was 1999, I had been photographing for a numbe...

I was thinking about doing a series of 10 print portfolio boxes. The prints would be made on fiber b/w or metallic color paper all in the 16...

Went to the Opening for the Open Photography 2008 competition tonight. Lots of people crowding around the prints in a hot room lacking a/c w...

Been looking at this photograph Richard Avedon shot of his father tonight. The straight forward honesty of the image gives it great power. Y...

Spent 2 days developing color neg film from 2003 a few days back. I still have quite a bit of film to get through, time to get that stuff de...

Had a very rewarding email today. One photograph from the Portrait Series has been added to a prestigious private collection. Thanks very mu...

Art: Master of Black and White Sunday, April 13 German-American photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt -- best known for his picture of an American...

This image has been haunting me lately. Every now and again I cannot get a image out of my mind, now it's this photographs turn! The cra...

When I was in Thailand in 1999 there was a very popular song that I would hear all the time. The song was called Yaum, sung by the Thai grou...

Cartier-Bresson speaking about the reason to create. "...that's all that matters...love...not only lovemaking...but just plain love...

From an interview of Ansel Adams when he was in his 70s. Interveiwer: " Have you taken the perfect picture yet?" Adams : " No...

Great series of interviews. http://www.youtube.com/user/Rangefindergeneral Ansel Adams at 81 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAHIGS4iiJY&...

"Composition in photography is the strongest way of seeing."

Ansel Adams on BBC Part 1-4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZND3eczqoIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWhQGU2RYuM http://www.youtube.com/wat...

Going to make some photographs this week! They will be a series of practise shots using techniques and camera/flash combinations I hope to u...

Volume 44, Number 4 · March 6, 1997 Bellocq's Women By Joseph L. Ruby, Reply by Janet Malcolm In response to The Real Thing (January 9, ...

I have been studying the work of EJ Bellocq lately, he was a hack pro photographer from New Orleans who in 1912 did some private work. The ...

Stuart Franklin The world that I grew up in will be, from today, a poorer place. It is with great sadness I have to write that Philip - a mo...

"I suppose I made it look easy, but gee whiz, did I work and worry."

Overweight nude to set art world record By CNN's Melissa Gray LONDON, England (CNN) -- A picture of an overweight woman lying naked on a...

"...a thing is never beautiful only because it is new...novelty is rarely the essence. Only one thing is always involved: making someth...

Well it's a lucky day today, three of the Sex Worker photographs were added to the prestigious photograph collection of Dr. Robert Drapk...

My mind keeps flashing forward to the images I want to make in Thailand. I will call the series "Ladyboy" using 2 cameras I will s...

"They are the proof that something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away b...

The biggest photo festival in the world and it's in Canada! http://www.contactphoto.com/

Well my handheld 4x5 rangefinder camera is here!! Am really looking forward to using this new tool. Will be testing it over the next while w...

Meyerowitz is doing a commercial for HP but it is still quite fascinating to watch the process he goes through to produce a show. It is also...

Dean finished my bananarama camera and shipped it yesterday. The camera is on his website today, check it out, it's a BEAUTY! http://hom...

" what is the role of the artist-photographer? The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives a...

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Four Photojournalists Killed During Vietnam War Come Home For Burial WASHINGTON, DC (March 31, 2008) - Remains from the crash site where fo...

Been researching Weegee's work lately and found out that one of the films he used was infrared with flash (his movie theatre lover shots...

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"I think that a portrait should be powerful enough to make us want to ask questions about the face were looking at, something in the co...

"With a portrait if you could get one moment of reality shining out of that person, then you have something essential"

Been thinking of how to raise the bar on my images. I need to get to another level, I have acheived a certain skill in making photographs bu...

Well got some exciting news, my yellow 4x5 Polaroid conversion camera made by Dean Jones is finished!! Dean christened the camera THE BANANA...

Seems to be more and more gov't, peer pressure and gallery control over artists, soon with more and more regulations like these there wi...

The Theatre of the Face Portrait Photography Since 1900 Max Kozloff An engaging and authoritative account of the history of portrait photogr...

Studio Work from 1949 to 1970 MALI AN INTERVIEW WITH SEYDOU KEITA: I started to photograph in 1945 in BAMAKO. I am self taught; I had a 6x9 ...

Been thinking a lot about finding my own way. I think I have been relying to much on other people, groups, galleries etc. I need to focus on...

"....I had to remind myself that photography is about limitation. It's about not having everything there" "It's the ...

The sextourists of South East Asia. Doing a series of portraits on these guys would be important but extremely difficult. Go figure but a gu...

Been thinking about my next Thai photo project. A series of tight ladyboy head shots in color that I will print large on metallic paper. Las...

1) Porters, Chusang, 2007 2) Kathmandu, 2007 3) Weaver's Son, Phole, 2005 4) Leaves on Steps #2, 2005 5) Hindu Shrine, Suketar, 2005 6) ...

Picked up this book from the library on Saturday and have found it a very cool and interesting read. It is available from Amazon new at $27....

Well the processor is running downstairs with the final 5 sheets of 8x10 film from the Sex Worker series of photographs. Feel sort of sad kn...

March 31, 2008 Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times wh...