Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia begins cooperation with the Municipal Museum in Tychy. Throughout 2022 our students of Cinematography and Photography will participate in a joint photo project "New city. New vision”. The resulting series of photos will be published in the publishing summarizing the project.

The name of the project derives from that moment in the history of the city, when the enthusiasts of building Tychy - architects, town planners, artists and the residents themselves - described their future city, their home, as Nowe Tychy. Although the nomenclature from the 1950s and 1960s did not survive, the idea that in some areas a city is always new is still valid. It absorbs suburban areas. Adapts wastelands. Inserts fillings. Hates emptiness. Every day it is created by the inhabitants who influence its shape with their choices and decisions. They take care of the city and demolish it.

This urban vitality is observed by the participants of the project. Photographing under the supervision of the artist and lecturer Rafał Milach (Kieślowski Film School in Katowice), with the support of Ewelina Lasota (Department of Photography of the Municipal Museum in Tychy), students will focus their attention on what is new and young in the city, which at the same time provokes questions about duration, growth, decay and decline.

They are interested in the relationship of people with the space in which they live. Their individual portraits clash with the repeatability and uniformity of the place of residence. How are young people taking over the city by occupying yards, vacant buildings and shopping centers? What prospects does the city offer to today's 30-year-olds: couples, singles, people from here and foreigners? What is the future of shopkeepers and craftsmen being pushed out by chain stores?

The authors pose questions about what is everyday, but not always named. Is the apartment building a new block? Are guarded estates still a common space? Is a row house a fulfillment of residential ambitions, or maybe the only alternative to multi-apartment construction?

Project participants: Bartosz Gaczyński, Paweł Grabarek, Tomasz Grzymała, Lena Jabłońska, Jakub Kaźmierczak, Maks Plater, Anna Ryń, Jakub Stoszek

Artistic, scientific and technical supervision: prof. Rafał Milach

Content supervision and coordination: Ewelina Lasota, Photography Department of the Municipal Museum in Tychy