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For the last 18 months together with people on or far beyond the outskirts of my local Market Towns community I have been recording through collaborative environmental portraiture, audio and video interviews coupled with straight documentary shoots their life stories and memories, musings, hopes and struggles.
I do this with a passion and belief that the photographs we can make have a weight and longevity beyond our time here, have an ability to communicate a story long after the characters have departed, they are time capsules awaiting discovery.
These are moments of daily endurance that in a generation will have passed forever.
I work as a full time Carer in my families home and at the end of the week there is no budget for any photographic work. Most all of my equipment is borrowed and all of my shoots are completed in free time away from my duties at home.
Portraits from the Market Town series are multi award winning and have been published in print & book format worldwide. Market Town has no end date, it's a project I will work on forever, constantly updating how I present the stories via essays, interviews, articles, stories, portraits, mixed media exhibitions and a series of books.
Full bio and list of publications, exhibitions and awards can be found here :
www.wix.com/jamortram/jamortram
All my love to my darling Laura, bisous eternellement mon amour, you're in every way my better half!...
Huge and everlasting thanks to my Dad... you showed me the power of photography from an early age... taught me all the rules and supported me always... love you mate!
Aroooo!... for the dogs in my life... Sura and Tiboy : )
Great thanks to my friend, the other Jim, Spygrandson for the brilliant gift of my new Pro account.
Huge thanks to Manik23 for the wonderful gift of last years Pro Account.
Huge thanks to my friend and comrade Paul The |G| for the wonderful gift of this years Pro Account.
The continued support of friends and peers whom I value so very much is more than appreciated by me - thank you.
Photos of J A Mortram (26)
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- Smell the streets(STS) 249 photos, 543 members
- Digital & Film Contact Sheets 360 photos, 288 members
- Né Ultra 4,695 photos, 1,480 members
- 52 by 52 510 photos, 188 members
- Elite Street - Something New 458 photos, 778 members
- Nikon D700 187,587 photos, 11,910 members
- I AM NIKON 173,424 photos, 11,313 members
- The Digital Visual - Week in Reader Photos 4,103 photos, 950 members
- Seven by Five 20,799 photos, 2,070 members
- LSP MAGAZINE life as a street photographer 678 photos, 187 members
- Shoot the Street 33,453 photos, 1,271 members
- S4C - Shoot for Change 1,764 photos, 442 members
- One Frame Mag (submissions) 1,903 photos, 405 members
- Kissing Eyes Magazine 2,138 photos, 367 members
- British Street Photography (BSP) 1,138 photos, 287 members
- un-posed.com 686 photos, 255 members
- N-Photo Mag 8,614 photos, 797 members
- Rangefinder Cameras 155,344 photos, 6,330 members
- William Eggleston 38,129 photos, 1,934 members
- Cigarettes are sexy in photographs 493 photos, 474 members
- Portra 81,967 photos, 5,163 members
- I Love Film 296,188 photos, 5,892 members
- *F/ILM - Visual Narratives (E-zine Submissions) 284 photos, 339 members
- Kids Life 68,803 photos, 9,791 members
- fivestreets street photography 2,055 photos, 535 members
- Street & Documentary Challenge 21 photos, 29 members
- Calumet Birmingham 123 photos, 28 members
- Print Sales 560 photos, 117 members
- East Anglia 42,196 photos, 778 members
- Migration 674 photos, 114 members
- Documents.02 1 photo, 96 members
- The world is a street / Świat jest ulicą 331 photos, 341 members
- diet cola zine 3,717 photos, 747 members
- ENQUIRE MAGAZINE 39,909 photos, 5,506 members
- O mundo em preto e branco - The world in black and white 28,675 photos, 1,545 members
- Black Dog Collective 1,010 photos, 547 members
- Boy With Grenade 133 photos, 47 members
- Dust Magazine 2 photos, 148 members
- Environmental Portraiture Yeah! 8,739 photos, 670 members
- Environmental Portraiture 983 photos, 95 members
- 'What Digital Camera' flickr group 15,161 photos, 1,140 members
- Amsterdam - no rules 11,242 photos, 239 members
- Portraits Unlimited 165,246 photos, 6,222 members
- Right Here, Right Now 1,214 photos, 116 members
- Some Ways to Disappear 175 photos, 588 members
- YMCA Sleep Easy 106 photos, 12 members
- 23 portraits #5 489 photos, 99 members
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Testimonials (14)
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sp.neale says:
"A man for the Tuesday afternoons of this life."
26th August, 2010
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Laura Manfre says:
"Jim is so talented, he's a very nice and worthy person.
All his photos are incredible.
Jim is an artist.
And I love him."14th August, 2010
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the|G|™ says:
"J A Mortram
jim
holy shit
and it is true holy
and it is the actual shit
this is visual acuity
like an unwrapped
bare razor.
acuity
with a beating
weeping bleeding
and tearful
heart.
this is a hymn
a supplication
a muscular homage
and an exceptional
force of description.
this work is important.
important. that's one
powerful fucking word.
fitting here perfectly.
you look at this stream
you lose your own coddled
warmth and labelled love.
you start to think.
ticking over. ticking.
over.
thinking.
that is art.
a photographer.
a describer.
a teller of that
which needs telling.
the|G|™"10th July, 2009
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daveblume says:
"When Jim asked me to comment on his flickr page, I thought I would likely be looking at a beginner who wanted feedback. To my delight and surprise, I have found what others have found in his work-- humanity, classic formalism, compassion and originality. How refreshing to find someone who, while obviously talanted and accomplished, still seeks to improve by soliciting the opinions of his peers. Bravo . . ."
8th July, 2009
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spysgrandson--thanks for the half million hits says:
"It would be easy to engage in lengthy discourse about what this artist/photographer/writer shares with us. Instead, I will allow myself the privilege of only a few remarks. Jim is Bob Dylan with a camera. His powerful images and words reveal the both the gritty and grand elements of the human experience. His stark black and whites show us not only the painfully finite nature of our time here but also the potential for transcendence--for finding that glimmer of hope that always exists in the human spirit, no matter how well masked. I am honored to know him and in awe of his skill and elegance."
25th March, 2009
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- Lanny says:
"Absolutely fantastic images! Excellent composition and understanding of light. Very engaging body of images!"
6th March, 2009
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browncardigan says:
"classic and modern. strong and soft. beautiful, always. his type of talent isn't supposed to exist anymore."
5th March, 2009
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Sébastien.C says:
"strong and human work"
7th January, 2009
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ENIGMA IMAGES says:
"There aren't many eyes I can imagine looking through but these ones see humanity in its purest form. Timeless images that one should spend time enjoying and learning from."
3rd January, 2009
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kateri_tekakwitha says:
"I was thinking really long how to start... how to express what i feel when i visit Jim's photostream...
It is simply honest, real and beautiful gallery of simple, real and beautiful people.
Every picture tells a story, which stays with you for a very long time.
You don't only can see his photos but also listen to them. Jim portrays atmosphere and mood so convincingly...
I'm so glad that i found Him here on flickr.
Thank You for your amazing photos."27th December, 2008
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Lars Lejring says:
"I get so much inspiration from Jim Mortram´s work!
He speaks with a tender and quiet voice about the world and the people where he lives - a story of daily life told by a very sensitive and poetic photographer."28th September, 2008
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Manik23 says:
"An Artist with an outlook not many seem to have these days...."
14th August, 2008
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Dafthermit living a simple life says:
"All i can say is, watch out world the wee man is coming what a star"
11th August, 2008
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glucozze says:
"I don't write lot of testimonial, maybe bcz when you know from sometime a photographer -in true or in flickr - it's not very useful to write one, they know what you think.
but like i don't know J A Mortram i can do it :)
it's flickr: you open the "global photojournalism" pool and you see a great portrait -in fact the best of the first page-, you go to the mainstream and see perfect B&W like those which were done by the street master's.
angles are perfect, monochromes wonderfuls...i will wait to seen the next ones with urgeness !
i love punk and skin culture and i'm in love with your portraits bcz they make me wonder of how some of those youth i shoot could become in some years.
portrait of "beautiful" persons are too boring, i prefer people with caracter and background.
thank again for your work and i will wait to see what come next ;D"2nd August, 2008