Our team at the Dylan Thomas Centre have just completed the third week of a photography course with Welsh Centre for Action on Dependency and Addiction (WCADA). This course introduces participants to photography and encourages them to create original images inspired by the life and poems of Dylan Thomas, helping them to discover a life beyond drugs and alcohol misuse.
This week they were stimulated by Dylan’s description of Swansea as “…an ugly lovely town…..crawling, sprawling…by the side of a long a splendid curving shore. The sea town was my world.’’ The participants all took a walk out around the city centre, taking care to look up and note the buildings that were about in Dylan’s day.
You have to look carefully, but it’s surprising what survived the Three Night’s Blitz during World War Two which also provides the backdrop to Dylan’s A Return Journey.
Elephants, lions, dragons and cherubs adorn many of these old buildings, most of which are 19th century. There is an interesting art deco building on High Street in this set which has elephants hidden in the pale blue ornate work.
Why not take your own and post them to our Flickr group www.flickr.com/groups/dylanswansea.
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