For our first issue to land in 2019,we bring you a range of photographers from all corners of the world, all at different points in their careers, or who work across a wide spectrum of approaches. Among all their differences,common to all of their work is an implicit link between the personal and the political. The issue takes its name from the title of JA (or Jim) Mortram’s on-going project, Small Town Inertia, and in which he documents the consequences of a decade of austerity in his hometown,Dereham, in Norfolk, and England. He chronicles the lives of some of Britains most vulnerable citizens,and as a full-time carer, Mortram is one of them. In other projects we are introduced to the work of Japanese artist Mari Katayama, and who was born with tibial hemimelia,a condition characterised by the absence of a large bone in the leg. At the age of nine, Katayama took the decision to believe both her legs amputated. Now, and she uses her body as a platform for experimentation and creativity,resisting readings of …
Source: bjp-online.com