Grr. Thanks to be hacked weeks ago, the hack that’s caused all my social media account woes, I have jokers trying to buy shopping from my PayPal (yes passwords & 2fc enabled) as if I would order food to be delivered to Manchester when I’m in East Anglia!.

Feeling great today as I was able to get out for an hour & hand deliver to James his copies of SMALL TOWN INERTIA 1 & 2. It was good to hang out with my buddy, Koda came too!.

@robynne-limoges.bsky.social Thank you 🙏 for sharing.

Some of the comments are harrowing stories from those living & experiencing, some are deluded assumptions from the grossly ignorant. I stand by the question, why shouldn’t Carers Allowance at the least be p/hour equal to the min wage?. Carers save the state £184 billion p/y

Fingers crossed!!!

You couldn’t make it up… I blue ticked (for a month just so I could speak with a human, dead end as it has to be owned by the account in Q) my Dads account on Instagram & supplied zero ID & they just enabled the blue tick. They have no idea what they are doing. 100,000’s of accounts are

Thanks SO much Greg 🙏

I am 99% convinved that a stalker filed a fake report to Instagram in order to have all my META accounts disabled forever. So it looks like I have lost 15 years work, every contact, even all my private photos, every industry contact & my way of communicating with everyone (thats not on landline)

I’m constantly amazed that people ‘choose’ a person to photograph, in documentary, by their looks. The skin we are wrapped in isn’t the story.

🚌 Consett bus station, late 1980s, from Julian Germain’s Steel Works, made a decade after the town's steel works closed. The new bus station roof was made with Italian steel, an irony often noted when people talk about this period. 🔗 See more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🌷 Mother’s Day Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Step by Step began with a North Shields dancing school, but grew into something wider: a portrait of mother-daughter bonds, female closeness, and the ways identity is shaped between generations. 🔗 See more from the project : sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

🚨Due to strike action at Northumbria University, March's InSide meeting has been postponed to one week later than previously advertised - rescheduled to 23rd March. Keen an eye on our social media incase of any further adjustments to the meeting schedule.🚨 🔗 sidegallery.co.uk/whats-on/...

I really feel for Jim, he’s just launched an amazing photo book and he’s lost access to his social media. Anyone know how to get his profiles unlocked? He seems to have leaped through all the hoops like getting his birth certificate, passport etc

Can anyone I know with knowledge of IG/Meta processes help out Jim?

On the doorstep when I got home last night: Small Town Inertia 2 by @smalltowninertia.bsky.social Thanks Jim.

I mean…wt actual f!.

Last try for my accounts, I’ve opened another Instagram, that got disabled too, I can appeal so I now have an ID card, new passport & voter ID just to prove I am me!. £150. Madness. If I get this new acc working, I’ll blue tick it

#smalltowninertia A little of the feedback received for vol 2.

Last ditch effort in regaining my meta accounts (and considerable audience) is that I’ve essentially been forced to purchase a new passport!. Grr.

As the first edition sold out before even arriving from the printers (Totem in Poland) it’s really exciting to learn that the second edition in softcover has now arrived. Available via www.imageandreality.com

Everyday I write a detailed letter to meta to try to reclaim all my wrongfully disabled accounts… but nada!. It’s very dystopian.

Thanks Alan 🙏✌️

#smalltowninertia Some lovely feedback on both books. (I’m still fighting to get all my META linked accounts returned but it is AI help & zero human) www.imageandreality.co.uk

Feeling very blue. After Twitter became X I lost all my audience there. I dedicated time to Instagram, built it back up to over 10k. Now I've been hacked, as a result ALL my following is gone, all my contacts, all my friends, no Threads, Facebook or Instagram. About 500k of views a week.

#smalltowninertia Thanks so much @petercripps.photography for your support & for your sharing 🙏

Oh great!. Someone hacked my Instagram so I’ve lost my Instagram, Facebook & threads in one go!. So much fun 🤩

@ashroplad.bsky.social Thank you 🙏 Nigel.

#smalltowninertia2 The very first letter I’ve received regarding vol 2!. Thank you dear Alison O’Brien for your words. Hardcover is SOLD OUT & the softcover is still available. www.imageandreality.co.uk @imageandreality

#smalltowninertia Huge thanks to @totem.com.pl @imageandreality Shipping preorders ASAP. Still available softcover of vol 2 & a very few hardcover vol 1 from @imageandreality www.imageandreality.co.uk

A birthday episode with Jim Mortram (@smalltowninertia.bsky.social) discussing his new book Small Town Inertia 2. biblioscapes.com/in-discussio...

Many thanks to Interpubliq for the great conversation, support & opportunity to share. ✌️🙏 interpubliq.com/small-town-i...

The Persistence of 'Small Town Inertia' wobnebmagazine.org/2026/02/12/t...

Many thanks to @wobneb.bsky.social

If I really want to know something then the only place I’ll go is the source, not social media, not editorial, not the media & not opinions but the person & community. It may limit the amount of things I can know personally as a certainty but knowing some truths is better than assuming all.

#smalltowninertia Of the hundreds of hours of #testimony I have documented, David’s is so powerful, so eloquent. Here’s an essay about our friendship. medium.com/vantage/post...

#smalltowninertia Hot off the presses!. Vol 1 & 2 printed perfectly by the absolutely wonderful @totem.com.pl The hardcover of vol 2 has SOLD OUT!. Softcovers of vol 2 available to preorder. A handful revised vol 1 hardcover available but selling out fast. www.imageandreality.co.uk

#smalltowninertia THANK YOU!. 🙏 I’m quite obviously in the middle of being a one man PR team for vol 2 of SMALL TOWN INERTIA. Except, I’m not, all your help, sharing, endorsing, featuring is incredibly appreciated & the single most vital aspect.

@ashroplad.bsky.social thanks for the shares Nigel, such a huge help!.

#smalltowninertia Now available to preorder SOFTCOVER of vol 2!!! ONLY £25!!! @imageandreality www.imageandreality.co.uk

There’s no secret other than sacrifices & hard fucking work. Anyone selling you different is a fucking con job. Even if you do those two things, nothing might ever happen… other than the purest truth, the photography you make will be made with dedication & passion.

Vol 1 has a few Ltd copies left, Vol 2 is SOLD OUT with a second edition softcover on order. www.imageandreality.co.uk ALT for testimonials from Sir Stephen Fry, Jason Williamson & Jamie Thrasivoulou. *all included within vol 2.

@ashroplad.bsky.social Many thanks 🙏 mate.

@irq506.bsky.social thanks 🙏 Joe.

#smalltowninertia As vol 2 has now sold out in the preorder phase I’m putting all my efforts into attempting the same with the revised vol 1. Vol 1 revised features many new pictures, more testimony & the best printing it’s ever had. Ltd to 400 there’s a handful left at www.imageandreality.co.uk

#smalltowninertia Phone sketches

#smalltowninertia @imageandreality SOLD OUT!!! Vol 2 first edition has sold out before it even had a chance to get into bookshops so we will get the second edition softcover straight into manufacture.