FRAMES Magazine Submission Near Completion

Over the last week I have put in many hours doing the final preparation for thee coming FRAMES magazine story. FRAMES wants 7 photos with stories for their mag, they will pay $250 USD. I will use that money to directly help the people in the photographs, through food buys.

I wanted to show THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY project this time. This will be the 4th time the photo work is being shown in a photography magazine. I did not want to show THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP this time. The freeway pictures and the lives of the people there have not been given much exposure. A bit in one magazine and several online stories is all that has been seen. I decided to do the "Freeway" series this time and only 2025 work, not the earlier years.

 I had trouble editing down so I decided to go with 20 images and let them do the editing at FRAMES. I included harder images and softer (non drug or violence related) images for them to choose from.

I do not care which 7 they choose. The most important thing is getting the peoples stories seen and heard, and receiving the $250 USD to buy food for THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY.

Here are thee photos and stories chosen, things might change a bit before I end them in!

Note* I will of course be using my pseudonym Gerry Yaum for this mag story as per usual. I will have to make sure they put my real name on the check thou :) Or I will not be able to cash it.

Note** I am still working on the higher meg files of the images, trying to get just right. The pics below are just a reference to the stories, which might change as well. 

Khun Apple, high on YaBa, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY

Worked all night on my FRAMES mag submission. They want me to send 7 images. I will send 23, including this new image edit of Apple. I will let them choose their 7. Each photograph will also have a title and a story.

Khun Apple, high on YaBa, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025

Khun May

Khun May, exhaling meth smoke,THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025

Some New Images, FRAMES MAGAZINE?

After the joys of shovelling snow tonight in Edmonton, I decided to journey back to Thailand. Edited a few new photos from THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY in Khlong Toei slum, Bangkok, Thailand. I wish I was there now, making photographs, helping folks, instead of here doing the snow thing.

Maybe can find something new to submit to the FRAMES magazine opportunity.

Khun Dao high on meth

Khun Apple smoking meth under a cloth

Khun Applee wearing found sunglasses

Khun Prem after being beaten by her boyfriend

Khun Dao smoking meth

Khun Jen in his room #2

Under the freeway at night

Khun Jen in his room

Knun Pia in his room

Population Canada

 

Link: Answering a Facebook Question

 NR

I was thinking about you yesterday… And your art… I was wondering why you don’t photograph American citizens is it because they might see it? Or is it just that you prefer the aesthetic of these people that you’re with? Cause I see a lot of this here lots and lots of it and I go in and talk to people and bring them food and money when I have a little extra.

I’m about to give out blankets and clothes

GY

It is great that you are helping people in need N…. Keep at it!

I am Canadian and I do sometimes photograph Canadians and Americans but not nearly as much as people in South East Asia especially Thailand. 

Here is a fun photo. When I was 21 I went down to West Oakland California and photographed in  African American Ghetto. On the left is Bob and the right Sonny, both friends, especially Sonny. I returned there 5 years later at 26.

In 2014-15, I spent 13 months in Canada photographing my fathers life with pancreatic cancer.

I think for me I need to like-love the people I photograph, I need to have greater empathy and compassion for my subjects. Those people have been mostly in South East Asia for me. I need to feel those emotions to make my pictures. So it is easier to find a project and people that resonate with my heart and just return again and agin to their lives and continue making pictures and telling those stories.

When you care, all the photos things becomes easier and more important to you. You are able to overcome physical and emotional hardships. As you age those difficulties increase but you still need to make the pictures, you cannot help yourself. Caring for the people drives you forward. That feeling has also lead to all the humanitarian donations, of food, toys, etc. Everything is inter connected!,

Have a good day.

Blast from the Past

Bob, me and Sonny, 1985 I think

Finding Forgotten Images Again

I am going through some of my forgotten THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY series photographs today. I need to find 7 images with stories to be published in FRAMES photography magazine. I will send them 15, and the editors can choose which 7 they prefer.

Apple confused

Apple after doing YaBa

Prem and Dao having sex

Apple with hat

Apple after doing YaBa

Apple high on YaBa

Apple thinking

Apple laying back watching me

Apple with mask

Apple thinking

Prem and Dao between the trucks

Dao and Prem doing meth

Dao smoking meth

Grandma thanking me for food

Nong with dog

Prem fighting off Dao

Prem