Jim A. Mortram (born 10 September 1971)[1] is a British social documentary photographer and writer, based in Dereham, Norfolk.
[2][3] His ongoing project using photography and writing, Small Town Inertia, records the lives of a number of disadvantaged and marginalised people living near to his home,[4] in order to tell stories he believes are under-reported.
Its name is a reference to the market town of Dereham, where he lives, fifteen miles west of the city of Norwich in Norfolk.
[5] Small Town Inertia tells stories of "isolation, poverty, drug abuse, homelessness, self-harm, mental illness, juvenile crime, and epilepsy",[5][7] that Mortram believes are otherwise under-reported.
[5] Dave Stelfox wrote in The Guardian that "Mortram's rich, black-and-white images possess a timeless quality that invites easy comparison with the classic documentary work of such British photographers as Chris Steele Perkins, Paul Trevor and Chris Killip.