Yaum's Photo Diary

Here is  a shot on one of street kids in Katmandu, he was laughing, high (glue?) he called me over to take a photo of him pissing on a publ...

Don McCullin speaking about his current photography and darkroom work: "I can't explain how happy I am in my darkroom. I process...

The print of today is a shot I made in Kathmandu Nepal of a shrouded body awaiting cremation. The image was made in extremely low light wit...

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that."

I got a nice rejection note from a major gallery, one of the top 3 museums in Canada, probably number 2 , the Art Gallery of Ontario. Oh w...

I am currently reading a wonderfully enlightening book titled "Witness In Our Time" by Ken Light. The Eugene Richard's quote ...

Today 4 people were killed as part of the protests in Bangkok, the violence seems to be escalating. The protests in 2010 lead to many death...

I saw work by Marc Chagall at the AGA today, it was very beautiful dreamlike, sublime, you could feel the love and devotion he felt for his...

Today in the dark I did  up maybe 25 8x10 work prints to check out various similar negs. Many times the negs shot back to back are very sim...

Great video of National Geographic photographers talking about the power of photography and what photography means to them. The video is 5 ...

Well I have scanned all 200 rolls of negs from the recent November trip, these are low quality scans to get a quick look at things and allo...

P ushed Tri-X is becoming one of my favorite photo looks. I am finding that I like the high contrast, blur, grain look of film shot in ver...

"...when you say your're a photojournalist, you attempt to tell the truth. After you become aware of a persons's life or a hum...

"Families of the dump" Series, Thailand 2013 "Families of the dump" Series, Thailand 2013 "Families of t...

Well today darkroom day 24 I did up a bunch of 8x10 RC prints of negs that looked promising. My process is to select the negs for further s...

Here are another 15 images, I am almost finished scanning all the negs from November, have a backlog of images I will add in the coming wee...

"There's music in all things, if men had ears."

A very strong, moving documentary on Don McCullin. The section of the show that had the story about the naked dying African girl showing di...

"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential, every horizon upon being reached reveals another beckoning in the distan...

I tried something for fun, using google translate to try to convert some of the Vietnamese comments on the page into English. The results w...

Here is a Vietnamese reposting of the "Body Sellers"Slate story (male oriented site), they have translated my interview into Viet...

Another link to the "Body Sellers" Slate story, this one a face book page called "National Community Church Against Slavery ...

Here is  another posting of parts of the Slate story on a photography site called Pixoscope. Gosh I wish I had 1 roll of Tri-x 35mm film fo...

CDN PHOTOGRAPHER THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: CANADIAN GERRY YAUM’S PHOTOS OF THAILAND’S SEX WORKERS By: Kat - 15 January 2014 ...

Not sure where this Canadian photographer.net story came from, the first I heard of it was when I did a Gerry Yaum search on bing.com. I g...

A couple of days ago I got my PhotoNOLA "Body Seller" prints back from New Orleans. It cost me $120 CAD to have them shipped back...

From Mr. Ebert's (I miss reading his writing) review on the 1966 movie "Blow-up". The film is about a character mired in en...

Today is day 18 of my attempted 90 day darkroom work run. At times I have struggled to stay motivated, what I have found is that a key comp...

After spending extra time with the hand-tool-hand image I switched off to a new negative. This is a photograph of the older young boy, from...

The only way I am going to fight my way through all the rejections from the mid level museums/galleries is to buckle down and double and tr...

Got this today, do not remember applying for the AGM but I will probably continue trying in the coming years, they seem like decent enough ...

It is freezing outside a temp of around -25C, indoors thou, the music is playing and the Dectol is flowing. I am trying some more of the ho...

Yesterday as I was shopping for groceries at C….. I came upon a very nice plastic/metal shed selling for $999. The thing was quite beautifu...

This is the first fibre print of the day, it is a shot made in the dump of a farther and his 2 young boys working. This photograph was made...

Well today is day 15 in the darkroom, it's a no security guard day so I can devote myself to my printing. So for I have spent 5 hours d...

Remember a while back I told you about my Buddhist making merit thing where I rescued some crayfish from the local Chinese grocery store, t...