Yaum's Photo Diary

Last Saturday I missed out on a chance to attend a grant writing conference for EAC (Edmonton Art Council) grants. I had signed up and was ...

Just had a short dad dream. We were traveling together and were sitting at a restaurant called the "Pink Rabbit". This restaurant...

Got rejected for the Burtynsky book grant for the second time. They chose to produce a book on aging and the family or as the jury put it ...

Just had an idea for the "Lost Innocence" photography project. What if instead of making portraits in one place I did it in sever...

Commenting on the Roseanne TV show cancellation. "At least it picked the right one here. The battle against bigotry is not just abo...

"I don't press the shutter. The image does. And it's being gently clobbered."

Just going over in my mind what I will be doing my next week off. - yard work. - darkroom work, start to print the Penticton "Forgo...

"No man is more cheated than the selfish man."

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

“We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that, we will be able to make of this old world a...

What a wonderful and important heart felt message delivered to the world at the recent royal wedding by Bishop Curry. Love is the answer, L...

My mind keeps getting pulled back to the lives I photographed in Cambodia in 2003, and the proposed "Lost Innocence" project. Whi...

Been thinking tonight at work about possible "KANATA" portrait possibilities they include. - First Nation peoples. - Immigrant...

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them.”

My mothers health is deteriorating, and there seems nothing can be done about it. Mom has been sick for the last 2 months or so with nausea...

[on experiencing racism] "I was just on the Today show and they were telling me how wonderful I was and I walk out into the reality o...

“if any one killed a person, it would be as if he killed the whole mankind,”

Some more, possible images to print. It all makes me a bit dizzy, trying to decide what  gets printed. So many other negs out there as poss...

Been doing a bit of grabbing off the blog, looking for possible negs to print for the coming Penticton Gallery show. Who knows what the fin...

Got some more info today on the coming Penticton Art Gallery exhibition. The show will be called "Forgotten Laughter: Children of the ...