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Radioactive trees to fighting fish: the best of Photoworks festival 2026 – in pictures

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There are origami cats, Ecuadorian midwives and painful images from the Ukraine war at this year’s event, all under the theme ‘Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams’

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Section: Art and design
By: Guardian staff reporter
Published: Sep 30, 2026, 6:00 AM UTC

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Photoworks

British visual arts agency

Photoworks is a UK development agency dedicated to photography, based in Brighton, England and founded in 1995. It commissions and publishes new photography and writing on photography; publishes the Photoworks Annual, a journal on photography and visual culture, tours Photoworks Presents, a live talks and events programme, and produces the Brighton Photo Biennial, the UK's largest international photography festival Brighton Photo Biennial,. It fosters new talent through the organisation of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in collaboration with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Ecuadorians

People of Ecuador

Ecuadorians are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Ecuadorian.

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Radioactive trees to fighting fish: the best of Photoworks festival 2026 – in pictures

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