Join Pretty Shitty City’s Group on Flickr to share your photos and designs with everyone.
If the community gets busy easy enough I’ll integrate a feed of the images into this site, allowing anyone have their smut appear on these very pages. 
Any photos that are uploaded to the group will automatically be displayed on our new Calendar/Photo Mashup page.
Currently making me smile:
Is is authentic or a mock-up? Good effort if so, but either way, its great!
Tyron Francis is a freelance photographer based in Swansea, and as he’s just re-designed his website, I thought it was a good time to do a little profile on him.
Through exploring Swansea, music & people, Francis has built up a portfolio with varied work, and he gets the geek vote too, for publishing his work under a Creative Commons license.
The two main themes of his work seem to be community and music, both of which he his obviously passionate about. The photos have a gritty documentary feel, but still feel colourful and full of life, capturing moments of raw emotion and day-to-day life as if they were always the same thing.
In his own words, Tyron sees “… photography as a tool for social awareness and change, or rather MY tool for social awareness and change.”
All images © Tyron Francis and licensed under Creative Commons.
Thanks to Luke for coming up with our header design for April. You can see more of Luke’s photography here.
When Lives Collide is a collection of photographs from Paul Wenham-Clarke being exhibited at the Mission Gallery this month. Together with charity Road Peace, the project aims to raise awareness about road traffic accidents.
The collection is made up of two parts, the crash images and the portraits. The crash images are staged and have a hyper-real, manipulated feel to them - which tends to dull the effect of the violence, whilst still leaving them uncomfortable to look at. The portraits are more traditional, and tell the emotional stories of families that have been effected by these violent events.
The exhibition is free and runs from the 6th to the 27th January at the Mission Gallery Swansea.
