Today was my first night back in the dump after the excesses of Singapore. People here in Mae Sot live literally on top of garbage, in Singapore they drive around in white Porsche's and buy the latest designer hand bags, this year red, next year green. Who gives a f-ck what kind of hand bag or sports car you drive, what a waste. Money is to powerful, to easily a tool for good to be pissed away. Something is really wrong with this world when people can so selfishly spend on themselves and yet others live in such abject poverty.
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My time in a West Oakland with friends, 1985
I have been thinking of why I love photography, it comes down to something I have labeled "The Three Joys"
1) Creativity
The first joy is simply creating the work. Everything about the making of photographs I love. The initial ideas, the writing on the blog, the preparation of equipment, the research into my subjects, figuring out what I want to communicate. The camera tech stuff like composition, lens selection, cameras, figuring exposure, taking the shot etc. The post darkroom work where you swim with your prints bringing them slowly to life, creating something powerful and beautiful. I love it all.
It is so powerful a thing, you have a idea in your mind, there is nothing else, then YOU make it, you create it, it's fricking awesome stuff.
2) The People
The second joy is that photography has allowed me a way into so many peoples lives, so many different worlds. I get to meet people of all types, speak to them, eat with them, cry and laugh with them. For a while I get to live their existence to be them if you will.
I get to be a child in a slum in Bangkok or a drug addict in a ghetto in Oakland. I get to be a ladyboy sex worker in Pattaya or a man dying of cancer in Canada. Of course I am not really those people but I get a true flavor for those worlds, those experiences, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the joy and the sadness.
With photography I get a chance to live outside of the same same everyday meat and potato lives many of my friends and family live. Because I use a camera and make pictures all the doors to a wonderful life experience are open to me, photography is a window into everything!
3) The Photograph
The third joy is about the feeling you get when you accomplish your goals, when you see your final print in the developer, fix or hanging in a gallery. There is a special emotion there, a true satisfied happiness, something so uniquely rewarding. In the darkroom sometimes when I see the finished photo for the first time as it lays in the fixer tray I will let out hoops of joy. I will scream and shout. It is quite a spectacle! It's just the sheer high of that moment bursting out, the YES moment. When the photo is right and you see it for the first time it's the best feeling in the world, better than anything I have ever felt, the high of highs!!
"Ain't Photography Grand!"
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"Black & White" Photography Magazine, Issue #160
11 Photos, an Interview and the Cover. THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP and THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY. The cover image is of Khun Oye, 72, Klong Toey Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2018
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MONEY EARNED TO HELP THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURES
Money that will be used to directly help the people in our two photography projects, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUM and THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY $6334.67 ($6000 earned when 6 prints were added to the UNB permanent collection).
GOFUNDME, FAMILES/FREEWAY
Trying to raise $2000 to help the people under the freeway, and the families of the dump. TOTAL RAISED SO FAR = $325 —->$314.67 (after GOFUNDME fees).
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2022 "Families of the Dump"/The People Who Live Under The Freeway Donation Buys
Total donation money spent for the 2022 trip to the Mae Sot dump (THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP), Bangkok's Klong Toey Slum (THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY). Money spent on "The Families of the Dump" = $571.17 CAD (14982 Thai Baht) Money spent on "The People Who Live Under The Freeway = $144 CAD (3849 Thai Baht) General cases where money was spent to help others in need $15 CAD (401baht)
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"Families of the Dump" Donation Total
$4420.02 CAD
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To create photographs that speak to the universality, the commonality and the shared humanity of all peoples, regardless of country, race, culture or language.
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"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."
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"Be original and develop your own style, but don't forget above anything and everything else...be human...think...feel. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know your on the right track....Good luck."
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- Food, Desert And An Apple
- Last Full Night Of Shooting
- Time To Say Goodbye
- Buys
- Did Video Of Dancing
- Absolutely Swarmed
- Child Wants To Be Lifted!
- Buys
- Tonight's Dump Finds Include Meat, Vegetables And ...
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- Buys, Donations
- Great News $300 Donated
- Gerry The Medic?
- Photographed Tattooing
- Photos From Tonight
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- Photos from the 24th
- Photographing Teenage Boys Playing
- Calling Out "Gerry Da Bong"
- Visited The Old Area Of The Dump
- Medicines
- Quote: Photographer Billy Kwan (The Year Of Living...
- Today's Second Buy, Raincoats And Boots
- Gerry, Poh Mai Sau Bai (Gerry My Father Is Sick).
- No Scratch Cream?
- Final Headlamp Buy
- Photo Story: Oldest Daughter Watching Her Mother
- Quote: Trump Empathy Poem By Limericking
- New Photos From The Night Of The 22nds
- Trying To Help Very Poor Family More
- Learning More Burmese
- Shooting More Video
- Kids Climbing All Over Me!!
- More Small Buys, Missed Boot Shop - CLOSED
- More Small Buys And Donations
- Photo Critique. Works Festival "Trumpet Exhibition"
- Quote: Richard Dawson (Actor-Game Show Host)
- Photo Story: Girl On Sofa
- Photo Story: Girl In Red
- Photo Story: Working A Garbage Truck
- Photo Story: Laughing Child
- OCTO-Gerry??
- First Day Back Photos
- So Much More Needed
- Clinging Children
- More Video Needed
- Groom Drunk Most Days Now
- Locals Thais Donate To Help The Families
- Feeling Guilty
- Photo Story: Father And Daughter Working Together
- Photo Story: Man Waing Me
- Photo Story: Brother And Sister Working The Garbage
- Photo Story: Mother And Her 3 Children
- Photo Story: Heroic Father And Son Portrait
- Rejection From Saskatchewan Gallery
- More Small Buys
- 7th Night In A Row Photos
- Good Hearted, Watching Over My Gear, Warning About...
- Drinking People Asking For Money
- New Children Working The Garbage
- Laughing Children
- Child Playing With Medical Waste
- 7th Night
- $55.41 CAD Left
- Quote: Henry David Thoreau
- Quote: Socrates
- Night 6 Photos
- Ex Sky Blue Teacher
- Donation From Good Thai Folk!
- Small Buys From Yesterday And 6 Pair Boot Buy
- Quote: Spooky Portrait
- Photo Story: Line Of Workers Waiting For Garbage T...
- Photo Story: Mother Watching Over Children
- Photo Story: Close Up Of Dump Workers
- Other New Shots
- Great News, Possible Crowd Funding To Help The Fam...
- Night 5 Photos
- Photo Story: Accidental Self Portrait
- Photo Story: Girl With Lollipop
- Photo Story: Lollipop Girls
- Another Headlamp Buy
- Tonght And Kids In The Dump With Balloons
- Toinight's Dump Pics
- The Butt Of A Joke?
- Running To A Lineup, Then Attacking The Boy Who Ca...
- Trying To Explain Myself To The Last Few No Photo ...
- Protecting Me, Helping Me Make Photos
- Horse Play In The Dump
- Photo Story: Dancing in the Dump
- Photo Story: The Groom Visits
- Photo Story: Rats In The Dump Picture
- Dead Dump Rat
- Quote: Ben Vereen (Actor, Dancer, Entertainer)
- Link: Color Carbon Printing
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- Children Playing Games With Me
- Tonight's Dump Photographs
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My time in a West Oakland with friends, 1985
The Three Joys Of Photography
The Three Joys
1) Creativity
The first joy is simply creating the work. Everything about the making of photographs I love. The initial ideas, the writing on the blog, the preparation of equipment, the research into my subjects, figuring out what I want to communicate. The camera tech stuff like composition, lens selection, cameras, figuring exposure, taking the shot etc. The post darkroom work where you swim with your prints bringing them slowly to life, creating something powerful and beautiful. I love it all.
It is so powerful a thing, you have a idea in your mind, there is nothing else, then YOU make it, you create it, it's fricking awesome stuff.
2) The People
The second joy is that photography has allowed me a way into so many peoples lives, so many different worlds. I get to meet people of all types, speak to them, eat with them, cry and laugh with them. For a while I get to live their existence to be them if you will.
I get to be a child in a slum in Bangkok or a drug addict in a ghetto in Oakland. I get to be a ladyboy sex worker in Pattaya or a man dying of cancer in Canada. Of course I am not really those people but I get a true flavor for those worlds, those experiences, the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the joy and the sadness.
With photography I get a chance to live outside of the same same everyday meat and potato lives many of my friends and family live. Because I use a camera and make pictures all the doors to a wonderful life experience are open to me, photography is a window into everything!
3) The Photograph
The third joy is about the feeling you get when you accomplish your goals, when you see your final print in the developer, fix or hanging in a gallery. There is a special emotion there, a true satisfied happiness, something so uniquely rewarding. In the darkroom sometimes when I see the finished photo for the first time as it lays in the fixer tray I will let out hoops of joy. I will scream and shout. It is quite a spectacle! It's just the sheer high of that moment bursting out, the YES moment. When the photo is right and you see it for the first time it's the best feeling in the world, better than anything I have ever felt, the high of highs!!
"Ain't Photography Grand!"
Contact Gerry
- Gerry Yaum
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Email Gerry: gerryyaum@gmail.com
"Can a photograph stop a war? Can it save a life? Can it lead to understanding, inspire someone to help, provide comfort and open the door to compassion?
Hope that it can.
Pray that it can."
Hope that it can.
Pray that it can."