Jim Mortram's Small Town Inertia

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Watch this… — duckrabbit

Jim Mortram’s Small Town Inertia is a must see…and the set below is the strongest I’ve seen so far..click full screen….

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These images depict the full stop of the Welfare State cuts, Housing Benefit cuts, Health cuts, loopholes and failures of systems and what happens when the heart of a community is slowly eroded. These images also depict the lives of those hanging on, bowed yet not broken, of lives where a fight to survive is very real. Fighting apathy, addiction, fighting loneliness, illness all the while clinging to self respect, adrift in the community, in life, but not yet lost

Worth a look: Jim Mortram’s “Market Town”

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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Jim Mortram’s “Market Town” is wide-ranging and ambitious. The work is an ongoing process, started nearly 2 years ago. A mixture of documentary, portraiture, and interviews, the project tells the story of those “often overlooked and unseen by the people around them or seen and judged without the care for the stories that are there to be shared and rich bonds to be forged.”

Jim-Mortram on The Click

Jim Mortram's Small Town Inertia

Watch this… — duckrabbit

Worth a look: Jim Mortram’s “Market Town”