photo: Christian Dietz

We heartily encourage you to try to top this.

W'd like to invite you to SPOTTING AND DEPICTING EUROPE'S MOST UGLY CORNERS.

The idea is easy: whether you're on holiday or working or studying – TAKE A PICTURE when you see something simply and undeniably ugly (a landscape, a monument, a village, a city). Then send it to editorial@europeandme.eu and the most ugly and convincing photographs will be published in the coming issue of the magazine.

The deadline is Tuesday, 1^st of December 2009.

IMPORTANT: Your picture(s) should show something that's ugly, but not something that'll make people feel pity or empathy. It's not meant to be an intervention, it's meant to be ironic and fun.

GRAND PRIX: The creator of the best picture will win one of our fantastic (and not at all ugly) E&M t-shirts, which you can see in our shop.

Have fun!