Photoworks Festival 2026

Another edition of the biennial Photoworks Festival, taking place in October in Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

Overview

Photoworks Festival is a biennial platform dedicated hlighting international contemporary photography. Organized by Photoworks, the festival offers a programme that invites dialogue, experimentation, and critical exchange.

The 2026 edition unfolds under the expansive theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams, a framework that reflects on the precarity and possibility of the present moment while imagining potential collective futures. Through exhibitions and public events, the festival explores territories where personal narratives intersect with wider social and geopolitical shifts.

The programme brings together artists, curators, and practitioners through talks, workshops, and portfolio reviews, creating a space not only for presentation but for discussion.