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Festival

Photoworks
Festival
24 September
– 25 October
Outdoors
On your walls
Online

Farah Al Qasimi
Lotte Andersen
Poulomi Basu
Roger Eberhard
Ivars Gravlejs
Pixy Liao
Alix Marie
Ronan Mckenzie
Sethembile Msezane
Alberta Whittle
Guanyu Xu

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Don't miss our open air exhibition in Brighton & Hove

See it on poster sites and billboards across the city, from BN1 to the outer suburbs, bringing a global roster of artists to the streets of the city for the first time

Visit us online this Autumn

Experience a programme of events, films, podcasts and special written and audio content. Full programme to be announced in September


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Queer Heritage South

Archiving your Life is a project led by an LGBTQ+ youth group, Queer History Now, who are dedicated to preserving queer archives and enabling the queer community to take control over the stories and narratives that are told about their lives

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English Heritage

Photographers aged 13-25 can create new works exploring their heritage – especially their untold heritage. Submissions are now open for those aged 13-25 to share their work, some of which will be showcased as part of the festival

Our inaugural Photoworks Festival rethinks both the form and content of traditional festivals and attempts to disrupt the well known histories of photography, breaking them apart to include new perspectives

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