Casgliad O Ganeuon Alun 'sbardun' Huws

Inside the image.

A square monochrome cover is filled by a high-contrast, grainy photograph. A bearded man occupies the centre and lower-left, his head turned towards the viewer and his eyes looking slightly to the left. His dark hair blends into the surrounding shadows; the strongly lit face, moustache and beard stand out in pale tones. A second face appears above and to the right of his head, angled down towards him and partly lost in the dark, mottled areas. The overlapping figures make the image feel crowded, with no clear separation between foreground and background.

The photograph is cropped tightly at every edge. Pale, irregular patches and dark shapes surround the central face, particularly across the upper half and along the left side. A narrow, bright area traces part of the man's shoulder or clothing near the bottom centre, while most of the lower-left remains nearly black. On the right, the background is darker and more textured, with a light patch near the lower corner. The stark black, white and grey tones shift abruptly between illuminated skin and deep shadow, and the image has a rough, speckled appearance throughout.

Tall white serif capitals spelling “SBARDUN” run vertically down the right side, with the letters stacked individually and read from top to bottom. Beside them, closer to the right edge, a much smaller line of white text is set vertically; it reads “CASGLIAD O GANEON” and “ALUN SBARDUN HUW’S”, with the final lettering small and slightly difficult to distinguish. The typography occupies a narrow strip beside the faces and contrasts sharply with the dark background. The visual is photographic in subject, but its extreme tonal contrast and coarse, broken patches give it an almost graphic, cut-out quality.