Replace the Small Town Inertia broken PC.

Hi!, I’m Jim & for the past 14 years alongside being an unpaid carer for my disabled Mother I’ve devoted all my spare time to helping those at the epidermis of my local community.

Via photo documentary testimony, audio interviews & short films the objective has been to empower ownership & amplification of their truths living under Austerity.

I’m a one person team. No assistants, no funding. I make the photographs, edit, record, film, transcribe, develop film, make prints & fight for these stories to gain purchase in a climate & country sadly often deaf to the plight of our most vulnerable.

We believe in the wake of media & academics ignoring these human stories that it’s our duty to preserve them, to be more than a statistic within a narrative so often constructed without any humanity.

My PC had a catastrophic failure. A blown power supply fried the motherboard & killed all my internal SSD & HDD, it was a 10 year old build.

A PC is my & our portal to the rest of the world. It’s firstly a tool, enabling me to edit photographs & print them, record audio interviews, music for films & slideshows, edit & create video, engage upon multiple social media accounts to a hard won audience built over a decade.

Also I’ve used my online presence to fundraise for people within the stories of ‘Small Town Inertia’ & also globally with the ‘Photo Print Day’ that raised over £50k in its first year.

Without a PC… all my work stops.

I will use the raised funds to invest (for the first time) in the components to build a high powered PC that’s capable of the demands the myriad of work that’s being made.

If the goal is met I’ll put any further to a large NAS storage system to ensure a safe & stable backup of my life’s work.