The best photography from Format 2025 – in pictures

A Thousand Cuts by Sujata Setia explores domestic abuse in South Asian culture, through portraiture and the traditional art of paper cutting called Sanjhi art

WW Winter is a Derby institution, a photo studio that has documented the life of the city for more than 170 years. This image of interned German officers in 1918 near the city is one of 54 plates that was found in its studio archives

Part of the Young Format programme, this self portrait by Nicole Storer contributes to a body of work by students at Burton and South Derbyshire College, exploring the concept of conflict as it relates to their daily lives

Hong Kong artist Lo Lai Lai Natalie created the project The Days Before the Silent Spring about farming in her homeland. Her multi-disciplinary work looks at themes around ecology and self-sufficiency through the work of the farming collective Sangwoodgoon

Filming from the Rooftop, an image from El Gobierno Te Odia (The Government Hates You) by Puerto Rican photographer Christopher Gregory-Rivera. The project examines the surveillance by the Puerto Rican police, in collaboration with the FBI and CIA, of their own people, and is based on archival research into unredacted files released after the programme was uncovered in 1987

Flashed by Erin Todd from a project exploring the current state of rave culture in the UK. Todd is one of the outstanding students from the University of Derby BA Photography course 2024 recognised by Format

Child With Mask, 1989, by Michael Ormerod from his series States of America, a work that subverted traditional American icons, showing the country in a gritty, surreal fashion

Professional wrestler Harley Hudson, from Nicholas Priest’s series on wrestlers in his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Priest was part of the East Meets West programme, where emerging photographers access masterclasses at Format

The Dancing Through Time archive documents the social history of the dance and music scene in Derby and includes this shot of Geno Washington performing at the opening night of Clouds in the 1960s