PHOTOGRAPHS of migrant workers are on display at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

The shots are taken from University of Brighton graduate Julia Horbaschk’s Labour Of Love collection.

They form part of the Safe European Home? exhibition which runs until October 13.

The show is a tribute to artist Damien Le Bas who died in December 2017, and also consists of work by Damien’s wife Delaine and the pair’s friend Alex Michon.

The portraits were taken in 2007 and 2008 after Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU with some labour restrictions.

Julia, a German immigrant to the UK herself, wanted to provide a “balanced view of migrants”.

She said: “With the large influx of Eastern Europeans in Brighton, I made it my task to find out more about them and portray them as part of our community.

“I came here as a migrant worker myself in 1999 and I felt empathy with them.

“Brighton is usually quite a liberal place and it’s relatively small and at the time it had experienced a boom of migrant workers from Eastern Europe, so I was quick to find them and connect with them.”

Julia said the collection has taken on new relevance in the light of Brexit.

She studied Editorial Photography at the University of Brighton.