Yaum's Photo Diary

I went out at 12am and found 2 ladyboys to photograph around 3am, now it is close to 5am and I am heading home after updating this blog. I h...

Went down to find some ladyboys to photograph today and was sitting drinking some water when a lady sex worker I had met briefly the night b...

It is amazing how enjoyable getting your hair dyed, cut and washed can be. I just spent an hour or so under the care of 3 Thai ladies as the...

"I didn't choose to be born like this. I am who I am. And to be honest, I like who I am."

The current portrait session count is. 17 different ladyboy sex workers. 3 different lady sex workers I expect to shoot Mat (2nd time) and B...

Photographed 2 more ladyboys at 10am today Mat and Dao, they came to my room and I did the shoot in the room. Mat was one of my favorite mo...

I had a nice moment tonight just wandering the streets. There was a good Thai band playing in a beer bar, it was about 3am and the bar was m...

Nut a ladyboy I photographed earlier this week told me that many times farang men will talk to them and pretend they are interested just to ...

I only did 2 photo shoots today, a ladyboy named Ann and a named ladyboy Pim but it was a good day. Both ladyboys were interested and visual...

Have only a handfull of days left, I still have film to shoot about 8 people. Today was basically a day of rest, I had a nice meal with a fr...

I---, is a man I have known since 1999. I met him again last night, he is a sex pat (ex pat who lives in Thailand to buy sex) he came to Tha...

Walked into some areas of Thailand I had not visited for years. I ran into an old friend from my earlier photographs of sex workers. The lad...

Talked to around 8 or 9 ladyboys tonight all are interested in doing photographs some for a second time. I have 3 tentatively scheduled for ...

Photographed a ladyboy from last year named Ji Ji. Last year she was sort of angry during the shoot but today she was very pleasant. Ji Ji h...

Was buying some sweets on the street today when a old man of close to 80 shuffled by. He was heavily tanned and wore a old style hat which s...

Met two very nice ladies working as sex workers in short time bars here today. Shortime bar girls sit outside their bar waiting for customer...

Well the language thing seems to be improving. I am understanding more and more of overheard conversations. Things on TV are also more clear...

Well last night sort of sucked photo wise but tonight was a home run. I found two very good ladyboy subjects. Both were nice polite people w...

Well I was able to get the battery charger for the Turbo battery repaired. I can now shoot all my 4x5 film. I hope I can find the people I n...

Am in a bit of a dilemma. I am facing a problem I anticipated in Canada. How do you find strong faces that will hold a wall (hold the viewer...

Just ate 7 large raw oysters! The oysters are served in the shell with ice you eat them with fried onions, lemon juice , spicy Thai sauce, l...

Ate a great meal of barbecue at a local mall, you order your food raw and cook it at the table. It was really delicious!! After being pretty...

What struck me most about the cremation was the simplicity and finality of it all. I knew this man in real life, he was a strong man a decen...

Had a good photographing day, I photographed 2 ladyboys named Ji Ji and Sammy. Sammy was quiet and polite with nice large eyes and a sensiti...

After seeing these people work the bars for so many years now and to see the same thing night in and night out I am becoming tired of this t...

Photographed 2 people tonight a ladyboy named Paula 21 years old and also a girl from last years photos named Long 24 years old. Not sure of...

Got quite sick over the last 2 days, I guess I overdid it on the Thai food at the funeral. I ended up with quite serious diarrhea for 1 day ...

Making photographs here has a potential danger, maybe more so than in years past. I have no problems working with the sex workers in the in...

I found the ceremonies connected with Buddhist funerals quite different and very interesting. Some of the differences included: - 4 Buddhist...

King is a 9 year old Thai boy, he is the son of one of the daughters from the funeral I video taped. The man who died was King's grandfa...

I am now back at my apartment and will starting doing 2 photo shoots a night starting tomorrow night. I got a bit sick at the funeral probab...

Not sure how to put this experience into words. Sad, interesting, moving, difficult, life enhancing all come to mind. I ended up video tapin...

Well I managed to lose my wallet! Will cost me about $200 in money and replaced cards. I am not sure if it fell out of my pocket or if it wa...

Well am set up in a wonderful apartment at a very reasonable rate. I had a nice sleep and now I am going to go to an area I photographed in ...

Been busy busy. Had a hard trip over, met some nice people but damn flying packed in like sardines across the pacific is a pain in the A--. ...

This will be my 5th and shortest trip to Thailand. I pretty well know what to expect and it should not take long to get back into the flow o...

Well I spent the morning figuring out how much film and how the heck I was going to carry it all half way round the world today. My current ...

"...in a way when you look at a work of art there isn't a narrative, you are left to your own devices you are left of your own bagg...

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."

"The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world about them."

Shutter Release, January 2004 Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was a gifted portrait photographer who achieved fame and some notoriety from her image...

Last week, we profiled the work of the acclaimed New York photographer Diane Arbus. As a major retrospective of her work opens in London, Ge...

"That's what artists do, artists take risks, to do something new that no one has seen before."

Diane Arbus recorded this over heard conversation at her her group show New Documents in 1967. I wonder what they would have said if they ha...

Going to do what I did on other trips and fill a notebook with names, things said and ideas. Hopefully it will help me focus my thoughts, be...

Images flashing through my mind, feel uneasy and jumpy, cannot relax. Soon I will be on the streets with my camera speaking Thai (or at leas...

Redefining Normal: Diane Arbus By Greta Berman As March is Women's History Month, I thought I would focus on an exhibition showing one w...

December 18, 2007 A Big Gift for the Met: The Arbus Archives By CAROL VOGEL Two years ago gallerygoers had a chance to discover the personal...

Artist Diane Arbus Title A box of ten photographs (portfolio of 10) Medium gelatin silver prints Size 15.5 x 14.5 in. / 39.3 x 36....

Diane Arbus put together a project in 1970 called A Box of Ten Photographs. She created the portfolio box to raise funds and further her wor...