Yaum's Photo Diary

The longer I am involved in photography I find that I am becoming simpler and simpler in my approach. Years ago I read about Edward Weston ...

Since PhotoNOLA I have resurrected an old Thai portrait project idea. The original idea was to do head shots on wet plate of bargirls in Th...

Here are a bunch of scans from the last trip, they group mix from multiple locations and series. Khune Go"People Who Live U...

I have been thinking of several options in regards to the back log of 5x7 Tri-x I have. I have many boxes of 5x7 that were outdated in 2008...

Well I am back in Canada and went straight back to work last night. I am exhausted and will up date the unfinished blogs as well as upload ...

Well today was the last day in New Orleans, it was another day of fun, photos and good food. I went to see the wonderful Salgado prints aga...

Note*, am writing this blog after my return to Canada. The PhotoNOLA artist talk for "Body Sellers" went very well. I have been...

PhotoNOLA has been a great experience for me. I have met new friends, seen some astonishing work and learned so much from so many. The arti...

Last night I had the great privilege of viewing 27 Sebastiao Salgado prints at the prestigious "A Gallery For Fine Photography"in...

Last nights highlights included a personal guided tour to multiple galleries taking part in PhotoNOLA. Thom drove us to many large and smal...

Note*, blog written on my return to Canada The opening night went great, it was a wonderful night at my show and also I got the chance to...

I met, saw the work, and spoke to many photographers today,  a wonderful day. (more to come when I have time to write, also a short video)....

Here is another little blog mention of the PhotoNOLA festival. This time my evil twin Mr. Yaum is mentioned as "Internationally Promin...

Here is a nice article on a PhotoNOLA festival by Will Coviello for "Gambit" a local free newspaper. Mr. Coviello even kindly men...

Today I need to work on a few simple talking points I want to speak to at my talk. - thanks to everyone. - a bit about me. - a bit of t...

I spent a few hours with 50 of Burtynsky's very large "Water" photographs at the Contemporary Atrs Center yesterday. I will p...

Went to the PhotoNOLA gala last night, I had lots of fun even thou I only knew one person going in. I got introduced to many folks by conta...

I did two more galleries in New Orleans  today, the  Odgen Gallery of Southern Art and Contemporary Art Centre (CAC). I saw 50 large prints...

Tonight is the PhotoNOLA gala. The Gala is being held at the one place in New Orlean's I know how to get to, NOMA. It should be a fun e...

Note* blog written on my return to Canada. The famous term "The Big Easy" is very fitting for the folks of New Orleans. I do no...

I spent about 5 hours at the New Orleans Museum of Art today (NOMA), I found the shows wonderful and the museum friendly and inviting. NOMA...

I am usually very careful choosing what I pack on my trips but this time around I made a bad mistake. Thinking I could save some weight I d...

Arrived in New Orleans today at 145pm , am now safely in my hotel after a long exhausting day. Tommorrow I want to go to the New Orleons Mu...

What's the deal on grumpy American customs officers? I hate travelling to the USA for 1 reason dealing with the constantly pissed off, ...

I am looking forward to seeing lots of great photography when I am in New Orleans.  Edward Burtynsky's new show "Water" is sh...

I got some new photos (higher resolution shots than earlier) sent to me today from my PhotoNOLA Exhibition show "Body Sellers". T...

Am having some issues with my scanning, some negs are two curled up to fit into the neg holders. Other negs for some strange reason are com...

I made these photos in a Cambodian workers compound not far from my hotel in Bangkok. The compound contained Cambodians and some Burmese, c...

Khune (Mr.) Go is 53 years old (only 4 years older than me) he sat in this area everyday, later in the day he would  travel down a sometime...

Here is a video I made in the first days of the trip when I was photographing a group of people who lived under a freeway bridge along some...

I have a bit of time now so I thought I would upload a few vids today, this is the second one, the children in the Mae Sot garbage dump wer...

"I see God in every human being….Is it not a beautiful experience?"

Here is a bit of video of the simple joy and fun families had looking at some of the colour snapshots I handed out. The photos were made in...

I have been exchanging some emails with M... from the Toot Yung Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand. Right now it looks like I will be getting an ...

Got a note from a collector friend in Florida today when I told him about the New Orleans show.  Hopefully the work Mr Drapkin bought from ...

Sometimes I wonder if I can focus a camera, am losing way to many images to focusing problems. In the future I might have to change off to ...

I am losing lots of images because of focusing issues. The problem is partially a result of some choices I made, I wanted to try and have m...

Many of the negs developed so far this trip are not focused correctly. I need to improve my correct focusing speed and concentrate better o...

Here are some low quality cellphone snaps of the layout of the "Body Sellers" show in New Orleans at the Zeitgeist Multi Discipli...

Khune Anaphon (Mr. Anaphon) was amongst the first group of people I shot this trip, strangely enough this negative was amongst the first fi...

Jet lag or no jet lag I had to see if the film was OK. I developed my first 8 rolls of Tri-x 35mm from this last trip. The first 8 of 207 l...

I got another nice surprise on my return from Asia, I got a $50 from Sima for my little artist talk at the UofA a while back. With this car...

In the few hours since  my return from Asia I have been going through the emails from my contact@gerryyaum.com. I could not access this ema...

I got a very nice rejection letter from the Visual Arts Alberta today, I have shown there in the past and hoped to show work their again (F...

Updated On My Return To Canada* Well after a long but relatively comfortable flight I am back in Canada. The flights are always easier wh...

On my last day of shooting in the countryside at the brick making rural area outside of Kathmandu I saw a young man and 2 women walking tow...

Did a 3am to 530am walk through Kathmandu the other night, it was a totally different world. The streets here have no lights, so after abou...

*Updated in New Orleons When I was photographing in the brick making area of Nepal outside of Kathmandu I was given access to a bit of th...

I met a young boy child of (maybe 2 years old) a few days ago at the larger Leprosy clinic. The child was born blind but I was told with so...

I shot the last of my film yesterday, 206 rolls are ready to be taken home and developed. Am pretty exhausted after all the traveling and p...