A COLNE community has used photography to help capture the good and bad aspects of life in Pendle.

The scheme saw 60 residents in the Waterside ward given disposable cameras to takes snaps of people, landscapes and buildings close to their hearts.

Co-ordinated by Mid-Pennine Arts and Groundwork, the Five Wards Project, which also takes in Bradley, Whitefield, Vivary Bridge and Brierfield, aims to look at different ways of creating community cohesion.

The scheme, helped by European funding, paid for cameras to be distributed to residents and the prints to be blown up for an exhibition and slideshow.

The exhibition of more than 300 prints was launched at the New Life Christian Centre, West Street.

Around 100 residents attended the event to see both young and old people using images to express their feelings.

Lucy Bergman, Five Ward arts and cultural project co-ordinator, said: "We started the project earlier this year and asked people to take pictures of the things they like and the things they don't like in the area.

"The pictures captured real life in Waterside from the residents' point of view.

"We used a picture taken by a teenager, with no experience of taking photographs, as our invitations to the event.

"He took a picture of an old man called Norman Atkinson. The way he has captured his smile and the emotion on his face is wonderful.

"With all the negativity surrounding the area, including the problems with regeneration, it's nice to look at the positive things that are in Waterside."

The exhibition is set to be displayed at the Mid-Pennine Gallery in Burnley and hopefully in the glass house outside Colne Market Hall.