Flickr and Suburbia

Show Us Your Suburbia

'Show Us Your Suburbia' was a collection of three live flickr gallery displays that featuted in our Suburbia exhibition which closed on 29 April 2010. The results can be seen in our Show Us Your Suburbia Flickr group. In all, 129 people submitted 746 images showing suburban gardens, suburban interiors and postcards from suburbia. The rules and instructions have been left below to show you how the group was run.

The exhibition

Suburbia will tell Londoners' stories of the shaping of their city - how transport has influenced the suburbs and continues to do so. It will explore how local identity, lifestyles and architecture come together to form the reality of suburbia.

Your photo may then be chosen to become part of the Suburbia exhibition. We are looking for new images but if you have a good old postcard or photograph feel free to upload a scan of that as well. Images can taken day or night and landscape format is best. Images should be of London suburbs.

Submitting your image
To submit your photo simply join this Flickr group and upload your image. When you upload it, you will be asked to 'tag' your image. This let's us know which theme you have chosen. It may take up to a day for your photo to go live as we will moderate all images. You may up to add four photos to the group.

Each photo should fit one of the following three themes:

1. Postcards from Suburbia
   Houses, shops, parks, streets, cars...what does a typical suburban postcard look like to you? We already have an historic collection of postcards of suburbia but we'd like to add yours to it.
2. Suburban Gardens
   Show us your (or your neighbours) suburban garden in all its green fingered glory you could even include the odd gardener or cheeky gnome.
3. Suburban Interiors
   What does suburbia look like behind your net curtains? Photos can be architectural or domestic, posed or informal.

On display
Chosen photos will be displayed on screens in London galleries between October 2009 and March 2010. Throughout the summer we will highlight a selection of images that have caught our eye on this page.

Group rules

1. Tag your photo. To submit your photo it must be tagged with one of the following tags that correspond with the above themes:
   
   • Postcards from Suburbia, tag = ltmsuburb
   • Suburban Gardens, tag = ltmgarden
   • Suburban Interiors, tag = ltmhome
2. Tell us where it's from. Please geo-tag your photo by using the Flickr "Place this photo on a map" feature or with your own embedded exif geo-tags so that you and everyone else can see where all the photos come from.
3. Keep it unique. Make your shot personal and tell us why you've added it.

Important

Please read these carefully, adding your photo to this group, you are giving London Transport Museum permission to display your photo on this website in connection with the Suburbia exhibition.

1. By sharing your photos with the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group, in respect of each photograph you confirm that:
   - it is consistent with the Flickr Community Guidelines
   - it was taken by you;
   - it is your own original work; sharing it with the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group and granting a licence in respect of its use as set out in these Group Rules will not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third party; and it does not contain any obscene or defamatory content or material.
2. By sharing your photos with the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group, in respect of each photograph you grant to LTM a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, licence to display your photo (as it is stored on Flickr, via the Flickr API) on LTM's website and/or from LTM's server in a live gallery where such display is connected with the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group. This licence shall apply for the period during which the photo is posted in the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group. If you remove your photo from the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group, this licence will automatically terminate. If your photo is displayed on LTM's website and/or from LTM's server in a live gallery, your Flickr screen name and the title of the picture will appear with the photo.
3. If LTM wishes to use any of your photos in any other way, for example:
   * by publishing your photos in LTM-published magazines and other materials;
   * by adding your photos to the Museum collections management system;
   * by archiving your photos or by making copies of your photos and/or downloading the high resolution version as may be required for any specified purpose, or for any period longer than the period during which your photos are posted in the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group, we will contact you via Flickrmail to obtain your express approval of such use(s) of your photos. Should LTM wish to display your photo on an electronic screen on-site at LTM and/or publish your photo in a LTM-published magazine or other material and/or archive your photo and you grant your approval of such use(s), when granting us the approval please state your name as you would like it to appear with your photo (otherwise, LTM will simply use your Flickr screen name).
4. To be clear, unless LTM has contacted you and obtained your express approval, LTM will only use your photo(s) by displaying it on LTM's website and/or from LTM's server (including in a live gallery) where such display is connected with the London Transport Museum Show Us Your Suburb group.
5. LTM shall not be obliged to display your photographs and shall not have any liability to you for any loss of publicity or enhancement of reputation.
6. LTM reserves the right to cancel the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group and the London Transport Museum Show Us Your Suburb at any time.
7. Your personal information will only be used and, where necessary, disclosed to third parties for the purposes of running the group and exhibition and otherwise in accordance with the Tfl Privacy Policy.
8. By entering your photo to the London Transport Museum's Show Us Your Suburb Group, you are deemed to have accepted these Group Rules.