Yaum's Photo Diary

Been thinking more and more about the importance of having a strong subjective point of view in my work. Robert Frank in his book "The ...

Been studying a wonderful book called "Looking in: Robert Frank's the Americans". The book details the history and making of t...

About Irving Penn. "What I took away from working for him was that you have to have a strong vision of what you want to say — not just ...

His photographic credo "Mind, eye and heart must be brought into line."

Spent the week developing my 8x10 film from the last Sex Worker Series. I want to get all the work developed so I can choose the best negs t...

Been thinking of doing a hardcover book that would be self published. I want to have a book I can leave at the gallery so that the visitors ...

Been thinking about Oct. 13, 2011 a lot over the last few days. On that date the group show will open at the VAAA. I have always wanted the ...

Still on a bit of a high, heck on quite a high not a bit! Am happy that the work can finally be seen as a group. I have always shown the sex...

These 2 diptychs are part of the submission I made to the VAAA that was accepted. It should be lots of fun to print, mat and frame prints fo...

Got a nicely worded rejection letter from "Contemporary Art In Calgary - TRUCK". I will try this place again in the future. I stil...

I got an envelope from Visual Arts Alberta (VAAA) today as well as Contemporary Art In Calgary (TRUCK), earlier this year I made a series of...

by Peter Howe Philip Jones Griffiths and his daughter Fanny Ferrato at an anti-Iraqi war protest in Herald Square, New York. 2003 Photo Donn...

"My way of working is to enter an unknown world, explore it over a period of time, and learn from it"

"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is,...

W. Eugene Smith Philip Jones Griffith I have been thinking what kind of photographs I want to make, what I should be trying to achieve. Impo...

"Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no secret in photography. Schools are not really useful except for technical instructio...

"We don't take pictures with our cameras. we take them with our hearts and our minds."

Talking about her motivation for photography. "In the very beginning, my motivation was the same as it is now: to explore the world and...

Geez I have still had some 1999 film sitting around my darkroom in a box. Tri-x shot in 35mm in Cambodia, got to get this stuff developed so...

Played around with exposure and development using the ring flash with Blad and 80mm. Dad 77 years old.

Shot this on one of my 2 days in Cambodia this last trip. One is of an outdoor barbershop another if of a mural I found in a partially destr...

Been running many story ideas over in my head the last few days. Things I might try to do in the future, not sure how much of this I can do ...

"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself."

"Photography is a small voice. at best. but sometimes one photograph. or a group of them, can lure our senses into awareness.... Someon...

Went out shooting with a friend. I tried developing these films with the same dilution/time/temp as W. Eugene Smith did. The grain is notice...

Oew 33 Bla 21

"A strong photograph is something that impels the viewer to bring a lot to it. The perception of the photograph becomes the creative ac...

Why do you shoot what you shoot? "I think the raising of people's consciousness is the first step toward creating public opinion an...

Bla 21 Female Freelance Sex Worker, Thailand 2009

Finally got around to developing these Bargirl Series Photos from 2003. Num 25 Nit 22 Naung 38

Been involved with photography for over 30 years now but the excitement continues to grow. Tonight I am working in the darkroom developing f...

Trying to sell some prints on ebay to help fund a return to Asia to make photographs for the "Khon Thai" project. http://shop.ebay...

These photos of Bla were made in a room she shared with another lady, the room rented for around $7 USD a day. All the outside guests who vi...

Been working with Leica Range-Finder cameras along with Tri-x and Rodinal. I am trying to get a certain grain and look to the negs/prints. T...

This contact strip is from 2009, the third time I photographed Nit. She is in a shortime sex room she has used many times with her customers...