Yaum's Photo Diary

Well am at work doing final night shift (work 12 hours 7 on, 7 off), over the last 3 nights I have been cutting over mats and putting the pi...

From Emily Carr's journals (Hundreds and Thousands). "Fifty-six years ago tonight there was a big storm out West and a deep snow. M...

For a long time I have thought that 70 years of age might be the deadline for me to create the body of work I hope to create. I am 47 now th...

Well we have 90 people confirmed coming to the opening night with probably another 10 also showing, that gives 100 bodies plus the 3 photogr...

I had a pretty good printing week. I did the 2 white background sex worker shots for the show and also printed the smoking man and old man s...

Arts reporter Janice Ryan from the Edmonton Journal will write a article on the show for the paper. We have to submit our CVs and jpegs for ...

Found another image of mine online at a Italian photo website. Some nice photographs on the site, they chose a photo I did of a slum mans ho...

Got a reply to my submission request from Rochelle at the AGA. I plan on making 2 sex worker related submissions in the next few months. One...

I have been experimenting with the front surface of my frames, glass or plastic. I got free plastic 20x24 sheets from my friend Rob when he...

"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like ...

Here is the little write up for the show. I never sounded so good, to make so much out of so little requires a good creative writer, thanks ...

"A picture is not a collection of portrayed objects nor is it a certain effect of light and shade nor is it a souvenir of a a place nor...

Put my first print into a frame for the show. I am going to Larry's gallery on Monday to hang a few framed prints to see how they look. ...

I am not buying any more cameras but had 2 Razzle Cameras on order from Dean Jones that go back a few years. The razzle is a wonderful camer...

From Lewis DeSoto's biography "Emily Carr": "A painting from 1931, Strangled by Growth, shows a carved face peering out ...

Just got my new passport, I applied for a renewal last Tuesday, what's that like 8 days? That's got to be some kind of record. Well ...

"I am a politically conscience person...I've always wanted to be aware of the world around me, and I 've wanted to use photogra...

Spent then night working on the "Fading Lives" show photographs. I think I got one print completed and am almost finished another....

These will probably the last Xpan scans from the 2010 Thai trip. I was just looking through the contacts and chose out a few I liked.

"I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone." "The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting." ...

I really loved the show yesterday at the AGA, will probably go back at least 2 more times before it runs out. I learned of a new artist yest...

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggl...

"Young is old in poor cultures."

Another 12 hour night shift, scrambling to make money so that I can make photographs at some far off later date. I see so much wastage in th...

I am working on my little speech for the show but do not want to talk about GERRY!! I hate listening to those types of speeches, I plan to g...

You know when an email starts out like that your going to be partially disappointed. I got one print accepted into the art archives of Alber...

I feel confident, I feel like I can now make the kind of photos I always dreamed of. I just need to get to the right place at the right time...

Even thou I wasted lots of film and many times had technical slow shutter-speed blur issues, I am quite happy with the 35mm Klong Toey photo...

Spending my Saturday morning doing some color printing. I am printing up 3 Cambodian brothel portraits for the July 14th "Fading Lives...

I need to find a hard edged subject to photograph, something with lots of depth and humanity to do a photo story on. Drug addiction? Brothel...

Working with the Leica rangefinder was lots of fun, I did get some shots I liked but much of the work was poor in quality. I need to concen...

Well the June show has been moved to Thursday July 14, and now has a name "Faded Lives" I had a meeting tonight with Larry and Jon...

Photography—Not Pictorial Edward Weston, Camera Craft, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 313-20, 1930 "Art is an interpreter of the inexpressible, an...

So there I am in the darkroom, having worked for 8 hours or so, I kept making tiny mistakes on the photograph I was printing ( Girl on Bicyc...

This story reminds me a bit of what happens in my photo club. Something offends? Adobegraph it out! http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09...

Pong, Bangkok 2010

Did some color printing last night but the old 16x20 paper I have might be to old to use. I did tests last night on 8x10 Kodak metallic phot...

Cut the framing for the show tonight with my friend Rob, actually he did the hard work if truth be told. Got all the pieces I will need now ...

Am running out of time to get the show prints ready, the show opens June 3rd and I need to have all the pictures framed and mounted earlier ...

Started working in the darkroom 20 hours ago trying to get my 2 prints made for the Foundation For The Arts round 2 submission. I was able t...

Had a very nice time at the year end photo club meeting and meal tonight (guess I have to put my retirement on hold!). We had an outside jud...

I ended up buying framing material through my friend Rob's company. By buying and cutting the frames myself with lots of help from Rob I...

Made up some more test prints to work on my spotting. I am trying to improve something I am not that good at, like anything it takes time an...

Been thinking more and more that it might be time for me to leave the world of photo clubs. I have had a few people recently tell me that ma...

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...