The month-long photography festival explores identity, environment, and community through wide-ranging exhibitions and talks.
Photoworks Festival 2026 has opened across Brighton & Hove, running from 2 October to 1 November 2026. Directed by Louise Fedotov-Clements, the festival brings together an extensive programme of photography exhibitions, participating artists, talks, workshops, screenings, and related cultural events.
Organised under the central curatorial theme 'Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams', the festival investigates the intricate connections between identity, place, memory, community, and the environment. Through this framing, the programme invites audiences and visual practitioners to examine how we live in contemporary times, confronting instability, ecological challenges, shared anxieties, and future dreams through photographic art.
The festival's structure spans multiple venues across Brighton & Hove, presenting diverse photographic approaches alongside interactive platforms. In addition to exhibitions displaying lens-based work, the event facilitates critical dialogue through artist-led talks and hands-on workshops designed for creative professionals and the public alike. Screenings and collaborative events further expand the conversation around visual culture, documenting shifting landscapes and societal realities.
The festival provides UK photographers, visual artists, and cultural practitioners with a major national platform to address urgent questions of community, environment, and place through lens-based media.
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