Yaum's Photo Diary

"A work of art dies not."

The photographer and founding director of the International Center of Photography (ICP) is remembered for his notion of the "Concerned...

I have never read much poetry before but a week back I got some books from the library and have been studying various poets. I am sort of g...

Next year I plan to start working on the book I want to dedicate to my father. Tonight thou I thought why not do magazine #3 as a dedicatio...

Well after a nice rest I went to visit my father and we had a nice talk with mom. I guess today in the daytime dad peeled a 10lb bag of pot...

"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

I bought another photo book for $49.50 CAD plus tax (free shipping). I am a huge fan of Paul Strand, I love stories about his all encompass...

I feel like I am struggling along tonight int he darkroom. I am working on a bunch of 11x14 contacts for magazine #3. I am also selecting s...

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem"

On nights like this I feel a great deal of relief, I can work calmly and effectively on my photo projects. When I went to visit my father t...

I am doing up some enlarged contacts tonight of various neg sheets from the past. I want to make up a second contacts style magazine, this ...

I do not not usually post news stories, but found this story sad and a bit pathetic. I guess a Western male (farang in Thai) 38 year old fo...

Today I received magazine #2 a 20 page series of scans of marked contact sheets I quite like. On a scale of 1 to 10 this would get around a...

This self portrait was made in the Muay Thai boxing gym in Klong Toey slum Bangkok. The photo was made with a Leica M6 and probably a 28mm ...

I have photographed Nit maybe a dozen times through the years. I will try to photograph her again with the blad and ring flash next trip. T...

We added another strong documentary photographer to the Edmonton photographers collective I belong to, his name is Pieter  De Vos. This is ...

"When I am photographing people, I don't like to give any direction. I react to my subjects in their environment, and if it's ...

"I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera. Suddenly, if you are working a lot, it takes over and then you see m...

I got back the magazine I ordered from Blurb.ca today, I feel mixed on its quality.. Some of the shots are to dark others are dark but a ni...

As I drove around through the night snow at my security work site my mind flashed back to 2003. I am still haunted by the pictures I made t...

I have a dilemma to many camera's. I do not mean I own to many, which I might. I mean I want to take to many cameras with me to Asia to...

I bid on a auction of untested cameras (they look in great shape), not much of an investement. Will be fun to play with them even if they d...

I just checked out the link James sent me. Martin Bogren is a wonderful photographer, please check out his website. Martin Bogren Fr...

I got a nice email tonight from another man named James, this James is from San Diego. I am glad the videos are having a positive impact, I...

I got turned on to this tonight by Ted Forbes on his YouTube site "The Art of Photography". The suitcase is a long lost forgotten...

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the fi...

Not sure if this was posted before. One of my photos used in a story discussing the differences between sex workers and sex slavery. http...

As I wrote about earlier I had another darkroom workshop last weekend. Kelly came up from Calgary to learn some darkroom techniques that sh...

I got an idea sent to me today from my online friend  James. I think I might try to do this, below is his email with a great suggestion and...

Here is new design for the cover, a slight change, the head shots I think work a bit better.

Here are some screen captures of the second magazine cover and interior pages. There will eventually be 22 image pages (including the 2 cov...

I received Daido Moriyama's book "Labyrinth" today and it gave me an idea for my second magazine design. In the book Moriyama...

Lives of great men all remind us         We can make our lives sublime,     And, departing, leave behind us         Footprints on the sands...

Spent the morning and early afternoon working on a square format ring flash head shot of dad. I want to show 4 dad photos in the "Expo...

"It is people who pause to appreciate life and give thanks who are happiest. If we change our thoughts, we change our world! Love and ...

Larry is going to be placing large advertisement posters in the windows of his shop on 124 street. These things are going to be very large,...

Here is a GR-21 shot of dad with flash and very high contrast, a different photo for me, not sure it works but it's good to try and see...

I shot these photos of dad 2 days ago when I was preparing a film for the student to develop in the workshop. Leica M6 with 35mm F1.4 Tri-x...

I tried something a bit different with dad over the last few weeks. I shot a film of 120 in a blad body with a wide angle 55mm lens. I used...

"The great thing about photography is you have to be there. I've got the negatives - I've got the originals - that prove I was...

Had another workshop today, this one was a darkroom class for a lady student who came up from Calgary. I will put the $100 from today's...

Started working on my first of 4 or 5 dad pictures for the coming show. The first photo is a tight blurry head shot with plenty of grain. T...

Here is a high quality YouTube version of the "Young inside Mae Sot garbage dump" video that I posted yesterday. I now have 33 su...

One interesting new feature with blurb books is the ability to sell your book on Amazon.com, that might be something to look towards in the...

I ordered my exhibition magazine tonight from blurb.ca . The total cost was $15.73 CAD, most of that money was shipping related. Printing t...

"Good is something you do, not something you talk about, some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket."

Dad has been doing better this week after having a minor procedure at the hospital the week before. Today he was chowing down on some A...

Here is todays darkroom effort, the photo is for my coming group show with Larry Louie entitled "Life in the Margins". Steps...

Here are some captures of the magazine layout, there might be changes. There will be no type in the magazine except the "Gerry Yaum...

Here are a few scans of dad I might put in the exhibition magazine. I don't think I posted these before, they were shot around July/Aug...