Yaum's Photo Diary

A few weeks back I bought 6 books of poetry from Amazon as well as another book of Anders Petersen's, they arrived today. I will be pos...

This is my first attempt at my 3rd photo of the week, I am hoping I can finish this one and squeeze in another or at least part of another ...

While printing this show I have used a variety of different 16x20 glossy fibre photo papers. So far I have printed on Bergger, Agfa, Eagle,...

I had a great evening with mom and dad we talked for 3 or 4 hours. I feel so blessed to have this final time with dad, it would be so hard ...

I was so happy with my last Dollice copycat bag I decided to order one more, this will be the last. This bag is the Dollice DR-610 . I want...

I decided to push myself a bit tonight as I am running out of time to print the show. This print was made after I went out and had Ethiopia...

Tonight was another EPS group meeting. Were still in the introduction phase of things and tonight I got to see some of Tom's street pho...

Did a google on the professor who I believe posted my photo site index page on tumbler earlier. She is a very accomplished, highly educated...

I received the copy cat Domke bag today from China, the Chinese call their version the Dollice. It seems to be a good quality product. I w...

The photo I am printing today (in between dance sessions) is one of the key images of the exhibition. The photograph is going to be used as...

Here is a link and write up Larry's wife Joanna made up for our coming joint "Life on the Margins" Exposure Photography Festi...

These are the days I love best, just me and neg in the darkroom creating something beautiful in print form. When I work in my darkroom and ...

Got a request today to send down a photo for the promotional magazine the "Exposure Photography Festival" publishes each year. I ...

Picked up a new backpack from China today, hope it does the job, the cost was $77 CAD including shipping. I want the bag to be able to carr...

While mom and dad were eating their buffet today I went to a nearby library and stumbled on the Auguste Rodin sculpture shown below in  a b...

I spent the day with my father and mother, we took dad to get a haircut then we all did a bit of shopping at Walmart. Dad and mom also went...

Found another link to the sex worker photos someone put online on Tumbler, possibly a University professor. I remember for years as I was s...

Today I was browsing through a old edition B&W magazine from 2000 and came upon to Jock Sturges photographs. The 2 shots were part of a...

The Mother Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pu...

I made this ladyboy sex worker portrait back in 2008. The photo was made in a short time sex room near walking street in Pattaya Thailand...

When I first started shooting my white background work I made this pic of dad. I have to check my notes but I believe it was made in 2006 ...

Nong was a freelance sex worker when I met her in 1999. I was quite close to her and photographed her many times. Nong protected me from h...

How many times in my life have I seen the shot of a canoe(s) (usually red) floating in the foreground on the edge of land or turned over in...

From Rogers last online journal entry, the last thing he wrote before he went into hospital and unexpectedly passed away. The joy and love ...

My favourite moment in photography is when I first get to see a strong or great photo laying in the fixer under normal room light. For me t...

 From the film "The Rape of Europa" which documents the plunder of world art during the second world war. "Art belongs to ...

" Taking flash-on-camera head shots isn't necessarily high art you know..." (Email from Peter-Andy) Seeing all these great...

A couple of days ago I received a compilation book of photos from Amazon, the photographers name is Anders Petersen out of Sweden. I had ea...

Emmett Till  I hear a whistling Through the water. Little Emmett Won't be still. He keeps floating Round the darkness, Edging...

No Images She does not know her beauty, she thinks her brown body has no glory. If she could dance naked under pal...

Found this today in DNA magazine, a Pakistani a news resource. Kind of cool to see my work and interview in a real hard copy magazine. My b...

This will be the last rental condo posted for a while. I like looking at these things because if I do end up living in one of them it would...

The Pen EE 3 arrived today, it seems to be in working order as promised. I put in an old roll of Tri-x that I had laying around for several...

I have been going over my selection of images for my part of the "Life in the Margins"exhibition. I decided I needed some tighter...

After the page 20 photo problem with the last dad magazine printing. I sent a question to the support people at Blurb. After giving them so...

Looking through the newly arrived Vanessa Winship retrospective book has inspired me to try my own homemade version retrospective publicati...

This condo is not as nice looking as the previous one I posted and it cost more 15000 baht ($521 CAD) but it has a great central location. ...