Quite frankly I dont know where to start, well I do, and its thank you. Thank you to everyone that bought a print or 5. This spiralled out of control into something I never could have imagined. Ive had two sleepless nights replying to messages then followed by waves of anxiety. This has become bigger than I can honestly handle. Im just one guy and I’m uncomfortable with the spotlight being directed to me and my webstore. It was never about that and feel like even writing this post could look like a “wah poor guy getting so much attention”.

After the protests on Sunday, myself and Mano got home and developed the film I shot in my bathroom and knew there was something we had to do with the images. It was a fairly off the cuff thought, maybe sell a handful of prints and raise perhaps £2-300 for a good cause. We were so stoked at even the thought of that. But now we are heavily into the thousands. Like big time.

I feel like people see me as the registered charity, I’m not, the money coming in is literally coming into my personal bank account and I’m shitting my pants as to how to handle it. I want to be 100% transparent with every penny of this and will do my best to publish receipts for everything. Ive been a self employed freelancer for the last 4 years so I’ve no idea what my accountant is going to make of this. I don’t want people to see this donation and think “shit Felix donated THAT amount”, nah that was everyone.

I dont want credit for it. I just set up the infrastructure and I feel like me being a privileged white guy born in Surrey plays a big part of that. Which after taking a long hard look at myself this the whole reason this movement is happening.

I will be stopping orders when I hit 500 as I don’t have enough manpower or time to keep it going. With 500 orders this should be enough that with careful planning, and some help we will be able to do something really good with this money.

Im urging people to reach out with their comments and constructive criticism. This is a huge learning process for me and we still all have a long way to go. I am reading all the comments and messages I can across social media and all its shares where I can. The good, bad and the slanderous and taking it all on board constructively. The only way is up.

If you’re reading this once the prints are done, please put the money straight to SARI, go hire Mano HERE for your next creative endeavour and look at the links below. Thank you.

https://www.sariweb.org.uk

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co