Postcards from reality: send us your photographs

From Global development | The Guardian Fri Jun 27 2014, 16:12:15

Here's your chance to get snapping and show off your favourite streets, parks, beaches, sunsets, coffee shops and anything else you want the world to know about your hometown

Foreign Policy magazine has recently published Postcards from Hell, a selection of photos that chart life and death in the world's 50 worst places. From Iraq to Niger to South Sudan, the annual series attempts to provide a snapshot of life in some of the most troubled states.

But is war and pestilence all there is to see in these countries, or is there another, more positive side of life that is seldom shown in the mainstream media? If you live in a so-called failed or fragile state do you long to share with the world a more upbeat portrayal of your hometown?

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