Yaum's Photo Diary

Khun Gop is the only transgender person (ladyboy) I photographed under the freeway. Would like to meet her again, learn more about her life,...

#2 image completed on this 12 hour night shift. Need to do 2 or 3 more. Note* The finished files are darker than these iPhone captures. Anap...

I need to get 4 or 5 possible exhibition images done tonight. I am running out of time to complete this. The deadline is August 1 and I need...

Another possibility for the exhibition. Her dog was sick and we managed to help him, she was so so happy!! Been photographing Khun Ooh since...

Another new image. Khun Veegood spoke to me of dying. He said he wanted to die. He told me his children did not visit him, did not love him ...

Working on possible photos for the UNB exhibition. This is a new 2022 pic. Old man next to a wire dump fence, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae...

Working on possible exhibition images for the University of New Brundtland exhibitions in October. This type photo work is so different than...

Changed the angle of the composition. Will make a few more and call it a day. I want to go to the library, read, dream of art and relax. Dar...

Things flowing quite well today. Practice makes perfect t!! Washing 3 plates. My goal is to be able to complete the entire plate in the fiel...

  July 3 First plate of the day!!! There is nothing as beautiful as making photos. Been doing the “making photo thing” for 44 years now and ...

One of the good things about having an RV for this wet plate project is that you can sleep in relative comfort for free. The photo is from a...

 I am wearing gloves but still get silver nitrate all over my hands, especially during 10 hour plus work sessions. I will try wearing thicke...

 The second time I have made 12x20 inch plates. This time of the Gull lake, shore plus lake shots. 12x20 clear glass plate ambrotypes

 July 1 At Gull Lake Alberta, arrived 739am. Will stay till 11pm. Am here all day, Canada day. 16x20 Chamonix and 450mm Nikon Lens with Fann...

Ordered another 16 bottles of EcoFeu alcohol for my wet plate work. I have ordered extra in case this company goes out of business and I los...

 

Khun (Miss) Ooh and I have known each other for many years. I first started photographing her and Khun Anapon back around 2011. This photo w...

Jack shared a room in very small shack next to a busy road under the freeway in Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok. I stood in the corner using a very...

Man working the garbage, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2018

Mother dog with her puppy in the garbage dump, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand 2018

I learned on my 2022 trip to the dump that Mr. Woo had passed away, leaving a wife, son and daughter. I was told he drank too much and that ...

Ying was a lady I met in 2019 under the freeway in Bangkok's Klong Toey Slum. She lived with a man named Dui. her home was a cloth walle...

The dump during the daytime is unbearably hot. It is upwards of 40C with a high humidity and flies. The hottest I have ever been in my life ...

Do not know if Khun Dom is still alive. I could not find him during my 2022 visits under the freeway. His left arm was injured and shrunken,...

Two men in their dump home, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand 2019  

Chompoo standing strong under the freeway, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2019