Yaum's Photo Diary

Scanning 8x10 negs is long tedious process, it is one of those things you have to do but do not want to do. Finishing the scans will allow m...

Next year I might have the chance to place some of my new work in a joint photo show with a local photographer. The show would be of work sh...

"Most people in our tradition are basically rather scared of feeling. You have to unpeel that before you can really get hot and get goi...

In my past trips to Thai I would write down quotes and little diary notes. The idea was to make a record of what I was doing so that I could...

Been doing some experimenting with a Hasselblad Xpan camera. I saw some of the documentary work of Michael Von Graffenrie when I was in Pari...

I had some luck yesterday here in Paris. I had been looking at a book by Josef Koudelka at several different book stores over the last few...

Today I took my time and really studied Manets OLYMPIA for about 1 hour. Your able to get very close to the painting without glass in betwee...

Been in Paris for the last 4 days, an amazing historic city of art and cafes. My first impression was that people tend to be sitting at outd...

Blood in the streets of Bangkok, 43+ dead, hundreds injured, tragic times. I feel like I am in the wrong place, I should be over there makin...

" The main thing a work of art has to give you is order . It takes all this mess of ours, which is so wonderful and disturbing, and put...

Uploaded my recent website work. I have a new simplified design which will hopefully make it easier for visitors to surf through the photogr...

Been struggling away trying to update/upgrade my website. Lots of work trying to get everything in order. I am changing the front page, am a...

Over the last few days I have been studying the work of Bill Burke. I have been thinking over and over again, how can I use the 4x5 Polaroid...

Been working on the net book all night, trying to improve the www.gerryyaum.com website. Am going to add a separate gallery page and a histo...

Starting to scan some of the sex worker white photos for gallery submissions, 3 galleries targeted.

I found away to use my time better. Last month I bought a small net book which will allow me to access the Internet when I work my regular j...

The famous rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall recently passed away. I have a book of his photography called "Jim Marshal Proof...

Had a nice week off from my regular job. I ended up doing some much needed cleaning in my dry mounting/print finishing area. The room was qu...

Had a special moment tonight, a few years ago in Vancouver had something similar happen, not sure how to put it into words. I was in the Deg...

Had a wonderful night out at the AGA, I went to a Degas course. It was fun to be around all that art, talking art and listening and learning...

Did a bit of work this afternoon on a self published book I want to print using www.blurb.com I tried this last year unsuccessfully, the boo...

Listening to Billie Holiday the ultimate connection again tonight, such emotion in her singing, cannot think of of anyone that puts more fee...

So far most of my photographs on Thailand deal with sex workers and some shots of poverty. The more I think about this limited viewpoint of ...

From his book: How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful Imperfect Self "When you sense the living spirit in someone, standards of beauty an...

"Every artist needs a central issue..."

I guess that the AGA (Alberta Gallery of Art) has already doubled its membership, they have had 30 000 visitors since the opening (partly be...

I will be opening up a small studio room in the next while. I spent the day cleaning the room and hauling Speedtron flash equipment along wi...

Took the 4x5 Bananarama (135mm Razzle camera) out for some testes with my friend Rob the other day. Here are some samples shot with availabl...

Writing about the Yousuf Karsh exhibit at the AGA. "...Karsh, like many photographers of his generation, profess to seek that "elu...

Think I will try to get into poetry. At the Karsh exhibit (AGA) there is a video of him recommending photographers study art and literature ...

"It's what you see that matters."

A month or so I went out with a friend shooting at an old school house. I used the Leica with 21 and 28 mm lens, Tmax 3200 and Tri-x. I quit...

Reading a biography about the artist Modigliani written by Jeffery Meyers. A quote from Amedeo Modigilani from a letter he wrote to a friend...

Did a bit of work 2 days ago on the "My Father" series. The photo was shot the same way as the Thai color heads, a ring flash on a...