work + play is a month long photography exhibition that confronts issues of social class, explored through the documentation of work and leisure time. Opening with a 2-week group show, the exhibition is hosted by Gallery Lock In, a newly opened, non-profit arts space in central Brighton.

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London-based Glaswegian photographer Dougie Wallace is the 2016 Street Series Winner of the Magnum Photography Awards and is internationally recognised for his long-term social documentary projects that encompass a distinct and very direct style of street photography. His work is widely exhibited nationally and internationally, with his most recent shows taking place in New York and Saudi Arabia. His series Road Wallah, a unique insight into Bombay’s cab drivers, was shortlisted for the 2015 European Book Publisher’s Award and he regularly holds street photography workshops in the UK and abroad.

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Trained in Fine Art and currently Lecturer in Media Arts (Photography) at Plymouth University, Inés Rae’s work uses photography and text to explore representation, femininity, consumer culture and the everyday. Rae's work aims to analyse the labour of femininity in a contemporary photographic culture where this still remains largely invisible.

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Publications include Kurl up n Dye, a monograph published by Wild Pansy Press, incorporating photographs and typography investigating the vernacular in British high street culture. A feature on the book was aired on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour and her research has led to a number of conference papers and articles exploring the photographic image in terms of the vernacular, cultural anthropology and material culture.

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Cesar Da Luz is a Brighton-based photographer from the Cape Verde Islands and studied ND Photography & Photomedia BA, at Croydon College and Critical Fine Art Practice at University of Brighton. Having spent most of his teenage years in Portugal and now based in the UK, his work is primarily concerned with notions of identity – exploring history, representation and otherness.