Reid Yalom

On my 2nd visit to Romania this year we spent a week visiting and photographing in the Black Sea region. Access to this important water way is so important to the economies of the countries in this region. Bulgaria, Ukraine...Russia etc. i was fascinated with the remains of the dozens if not...more

I am so fortunate to have been able to take several trips to Romania with my Romanian wife, Loredana. I brought with me all the baggage of previous photographic projects and experience but hopefully was open minded enough to let the country, and the scenery speak to me. The result and the...more

I am so fortunate to have been able to take several trips to Romania with my Romanian wife, Loredana. I brought with me all the baggage of previous photographic projects and experience but hopefully was open minded enough to let the country, and the scenery speak to me. The result and the...more

The current PBS presentation of Burns’ and Novak’s Documentary on the Vietnam War, has reawakened the public interest in Vietnam and the Vietnamese-American War. Episode 1, presents a brief history of the French colonial period and the French Indo-china war that preceded the American...more

This unique series of images combines my 30 years as a black and white photographer with more recent ventures into color digital photography. Black and white photography is generally more compositionally based, and more subtle in its use of light and tone. Color digital work is more vibrant,...more

When summer departs and the sun drops low in the sky, the West Coast air is sprinkled with a galaxy of tiny moisture points and the light rays take on substance. The shadows stretch longer, become more angular and our visual reality is in flux. My photographic series, From the Shadows, is a view...more

The portfolio Landscapes at the Crossroads are a series of metaphorical landscapes that have been over a period of many years using both film and digital capture. These images attempt to take us to an inner-world rather than focusing us outward as in traditional landscape photography. I like...more

Colonial Noir was published in hard back Book by Stanford University Press in 2004. This series photographed over a period of 5 years in Mexico, makes the connection between, Film Noir, the European Surrealist movement and Magical Realism in Latin American Literature. All prints are fiber...more

After viewing several large exhibitions of modern art, mostly abstract art, I began seeing and photographing similar images in the real world. The main influences here are the New York school of Abstract expressionists as well as West Coast more figurative work. Artist of influence include:...more

These images are personal selections from 25 years of making film based archival silver prints. I am particularly fond of making high-toned at times minimalist images and prints particularly from silver based prints, where the balance is more white and light gray than the dark tones....more

The American Resting Place was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2008. the book was written by Marilyn Yalom with images by Reid Yalom.more

Everyday Beauty combines the best aspects of old and new photographic technology to create a unique vision sharing both photographic and painterly qualities, marrying the objective with the subjective and the image with the process. The idea comes from the concept of taking everyday objects and...more

This Portfolio was made over an intense 3 day weekend in NYC in 3 primary locals: Coney Island, Brooklyn, on a Sabbath morning among Hassidic Jews and in "tourist" New York" I worked with 2 small Mirrorless cameras using Leica and Minolta fixed lenses. Modern technology doing traditional Street...more