Yaum's Photo Diary

I  was thinking of the best way to proceed with my submissions. I have a list of 6 or 7 galleries/museums I want to continue to submit work ...

I thought shooting an 8x10 camera produced a large negative, check this baby out, never seen anything like it. I wonder what the enlarger lo...

Been thinking a lot about what I want most with my photography, what I want most of of my photographs, what work I want most to create with ...

I think I am getting a bit off course with all the gallery exhibition pursuit. What I need to do is to concentrate on making truthful, power...

"There is so much passionless art in the post-modern world, I am trying to put a little affection back into photography."

This short clip was made near Luang Prabang Laos at the end of my 20 minute photo session (poor failing light!) in a Hmong hill tribe villa...

Here is a vid of the crazy rooster that kept waking me up in Chiang Khong Thailand at 2am. Finally on the last day he gave me a break and wo...

These vids were made in the back of a speeding rot song tao (taxi truck with 2 benches in the back). I  was on a winding very bumpy road th...

Everyday outside my Chiang Khong room I would watch goods being transported in small boats to Laos from the Thai side of the Mekong river...

These 2 videos were made in March 2012 when I returned to re-photograph several of the drinking people I had previously photographed in N...

Not sure how my Cambodian brothel worker photo got attached to this story online but at least it is being seen and being used in a positive ...

" March 22, 2012 Gerry Yaum ----- Edmonton, Ab ----- Dear Gerry Yaum, Many thanks for sending both packages of information on ...

Well I am done traveling for now, am out of money, I might need to work a second job to catch up on all the bills. This last trip was filled...

I am back in Canada! Very tired, will update the blog and finish unfinished blogs in the coming week, lots and lots to write about.

As soon as the bus from Laos crossed the border into Thailand I felt more comfortable, sort of like I was coming home again. Laos I found wa...

I went and photographed at a Buddha park in Vientiane my last day in Laos. The park was built by a single man who also created something sim...

Spent my first day back in Klong Toey slum today. It was fun to be back with people I know, lots of smiles, wais (Thai respect greeting) and...

Traveled via VIP bus (red seated laydown cushion seats with pillows) from Van Vieng to Vientiane. This trip was throw up free (thankfully), ...

After a 2 hour bus ride (over 1 hour waiting in line at the border to get my passport stamped) from Vientiane Laos to Nong Khai Thailand and...

Boy just went through (hopefully its over) a long bout of sickness. I have not vomited for 12 years or so (think it was 2000), that record i...

After 3 nights in the outback of Muang Noi I am back in the formal capital of Laos Luang Pra Baung. I am staying in a guesthouse with a/c, a...

After photographing Purb's family 2 times (wish I would have had more loaded film holders and better light for those shoots!), I was inv...

The Purb family water supply came from a local creek which they would also boil as an extra precaution. I was told that water from the nearb...

One thing I noticed about the backpackers I saw all over Laos was that they were traveling just for the sake of traveling. It seemed that mo...

On my second last day in Muang Noi Laos I did some good portraits. First I walked to local temple where I photographed some workers, then af...

On my last full day in Muang Noi I went to photograph Purb's family again (only had 10 sheets of film wish I had more). I did the family...

I met Purb as I was photographing along the Oo River. I had been photographing children who were playing in the water when I saw Purb, who I...

I have travelled in Thailand and Southeast Asia many years now, I have heard many animal cries in the night but nothing prepared me for the ...

Here's a little hint on how to make a 47 year Canadian man jump and squeal like a little child, put a 4 inch hairy spider on his bathroo...

I had a very nice 2 hours swinging in my hammock above the River Oo, reading a book about Cambodia and relaxing. Far below from where I was ...

What's the deal with people being so hooked on their gadgets they lose the ability to live in the moment? I saw several times this trip ...

This is a story i heard second hand, the story was originally told by a local Laotian girl who could speak Thai. The girl who told the story...

On my first morning in Muang Noi I saw a young Laotian child, a boy of about 10 walking with 2 big pieces of very red dripping watermelon in...

Thailand and Laos are similar in many ways but also very different. Thai is understood by many Laotians because of the heavy influence Thail...

Spent 3 days up country in Laos without Internet access so am way behind in my blogs. I will write up the titles now of possible future blog...

Later in the day I went on a short tour to a local waterfall which was very beautiful and to a small Hmong hill tribe village. I made a numb...

Went out after breakfast and photographed at a local business, the business was the construction of Buddha statues for neighborhood Wats (te...

Met a 2 backpacking couples today that were very nice. The first 2 were from New Zealand and Holland the second who I spoke to in the tour v...

Rambling conversation from a drunk Canadian girl next to me in the Internet cafe. "I did the fire limbo, I got under it and bang I my...

This morning I got up a bit late and dashed out of the room to make a few photos before I had to go to catch the morning slow river boat to ...