Yaum's Photo Diary

Woke up early again to do some darkroom work on the Art Alberta Foundation prints. I am going to print some samples and do some spotting on ...

I think I am not much a joiner when it comes to groups and clubs and the like, mostly because I feel confined by to many rules. About 10 yea...

"I believe there is no person in the world that must be protected from pictures. Everything that happens in the world must be shown and...

"I believe that it is the individual and his testimony that allows us to access broader themes--through the specific to gain entry to t...

Woke up 4 hours early today to do some printing for the Alberta Foundation For the Arts deadline. Been struggling with the negative for 2 ho...

A few months back I made a submission to the Art by Acquisition program through the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (first time I tried this...

Not exactly sure who this is. He has a link to my blog page on his blog, so thought I would reciprocate. http://klaasgoethals.wordpress.com/

Went out with Rob yesterday and had a very nice day of photography. I was able to work on a few zone things and try out filters I had not us...

In Cambodia I want to show the photographs to show the lives of the people, one easy way to do this is to show their living conditions, the...

Today I made some head-shots using the Linhof 210mm and Pentax spot meter. I wanted to place the face (asian darker skin) on zone V 1/2 but ...

Thailand and Cambodia continue to have border fighting and killings. I hope my portraits of Cambodia and Thailand or Cambodia and Vietnam wi...

I have been printing the last 3 nights for the June 3rd show (still unnamed). The first print I chose might have been the wrong one, its a v...

Went out for a quick 6 photos as the sun was setting, I shot tri-x with the Linhof and 75mm lens. Using the Pentax spot-meter and zoning the...

Feel I am done getting new camera equipment unless something breaks down. In the past I spent to much money on the gadgetry of photography, ...

Been reading Cambodian history and working a bit on the language. I have been fascinated by Cambodia since I saw the movie "The Killing...

On Sunday I went out on a nice 1/2 day photo trip with my friend Rob. It was a beautiful day to make photographs, nice and warm with soft su...

Well I have all the contacts completed from the November Thai trip both in b/w and color. Today I am going through a selection of 35mm negs ...

This quote was posted on Dorothea Lange's darkroom door. "The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, with...

I found some more Ilford Warmtone 16x20 way in the back of my other papers so am going to continue tonight to work on the b/w photos for the...

Was just setting up the darkroom for tonight's all night printing session and was thinking of the importance of emotional involvement in...

I have been photographing Nid for the last 8 years, Usually everytime I go to Thailand I go visit her at her bar and we make some portraits....

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and which no contrivance on earth can bring back again. Not even photogr...

Will spend this week working on the web-page. My page is something I work on improving bit by bit over time. I do all the HTML stuff, the pa...

This last week off work I did up my first ever Art Acquisition by Application for the Alberta Foundation of the Arts. Every year in Alberta ...

I made this photograph in Chiang Kong Thailand which is up in Northern Thailand across the Mekong river from Laos. Chiang Kong is a wonderfu...

I had a good talk today with Quinton Gordon of Luz Photography Gallery in Victoria. Quinton advised me on ways to promote my work, the main ...

I spent the night working on a show print. I started up with a 11x14 paper size learning the negative, playing with contrasts, bleaching, do...

I had the meeting with the judge at the club tonight and showed the 5 Khon Thai photographs which were received well. I am thinking more and...

I got my 4 or 5 theme prints made up for the theme meeting at tomorrows club date. Three 12 hour night shifts followed by three 4 hour darkr...

"Not only a person's face, but his movements, define his character. It is always a photographer's responsibility to stabilize a...

Have been having a interesting email discussion with a photography friend. The discussion is about getting your work into a gallery and when...

This is the song that lead to the YAUM in Gerry Yaum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl7pMqn2aXQ

Been thinking lately of what I am trying to say with the Khon Thai project, what the message of the work is. I think partly its about my lea...

Another 4 hour darkroom session after a 12 hour night shift. I am about to go to bed just mounting a print for Mondays meeting first. I over...

This last trip to Thai I used a small hand held meter to meter my Khon Thai shots. I will have to go to a spot meter next trip and place the...

I have always been fascinated by stories of W. Eugene Smith's darkroom work. I have read that he used to print his work very deep and da...

This is a place I read of 3 years ago and always wanted to visit. I want to go there and meet the people and make portraits. This site Stung...

Pulled out my Khmer children's language book (got it in Cambodia years ago) and some dictionaries tonight. I want to make a concerted ef...

Well I am done all my film development for the next few months, unless I shoot some new stuff with the 4x5. I expect to spend all my darkroo...

Planning a trip to Cambodia, am getting excited about it even thou it is quite far off. I am reading more about the Khmer Rouge period in Ca...

I have been trying to finish off all my C-41 chemistry before moving on to printing work for the show and also for a special club meeting on...

Picked up a used Jobo CPP2 processor last night, locally. The price was good ($550) plus I did not have to pay for shipping costs. The proce...

Rules and regulations inhibit creativity and poison expression in art. Recently I tried to submit some sex worker photographs (face shots) t...

From the essay "Strand as Mentor", in the book "Essays On His Life And Work". Another point about which Strand was adama...

On Eugene Smith's photograph "Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath". "Tomoko Uemura in her bath is about much more than Minamata. To...

Am looking to travel to Asia as soon as I have enough money to do it. I wanted to go earlier in the year but with the film/camera and framin...

Did some test shots with my 5x7 Linhof to make sure the bellows were light tight, seems they are. I shot these photos of my father in my sma...

Still no name for the show but my group show date is set, the opening will be held on Friday June 3rd! I will have 10 photos up in this show...

2 more 2003 Cambodia photographs. I have to go back to Cambodia soon and do some large format portraiture.

Today I remember back to the time of these photos. In my memory I was in the back of the brothel behind the workers. I sat with the Cambod...