16th Edition of the Competition - "Gdynia Modernism in Focus 2026" | 100th Anniversary of Gdynia

16th Edition of the Competition - "Gdynia Modernism in Focus 2026" | 100th Anniversary of Gdynia

The City of Gdynia, Gdynia Development Agency, and the Gdynia Modernism Trail warmly invite you to participate in the 16th edition of the "Gdynia Modernism in Focus 2026" competition.

This year, works can be submitted in the following categories:

• "S&A" – "Symmetry and Asymmetry" – in Gdynia architecture, any sets of photographs inspired by the geometry of Gdynia's modernism, including detailed shots.
• "MŚ" – "City of Lights" – a city that doesn't always tell its story straightforwardly. We invite creative interpretations of Gdynia’s modernism through artistic photography, where reality intertwines with imagination.
• "FA" – Analog Photographs of Modernist Architecture – an artistic perspective on buildings, icons of architecture from Gdynia, Poland, and Europe. Portrait-style shots of buildings.
• "LWA" – "The Human Dimension of Architecture" – images depicting the interaction of people with architecture, public space in Gdynia, Poland, or worldwide.
• "DM" – "Soul of Modernism" – subjective photo-essence of modernist interiors of tenements, public buildings, as well as private homes and villas (Gdynia and other cities).
• "MP" – "Modernism from Travel" – photographs of modernist architecture taken during travels, trips, including places and objects still little known or undiscovered by architecture enthusiasts.
• "MM" – "Dreams of Cities" – architectural and urban photography or photo cycles telling subtle stories of places, districts (e.g., city districts, gardens, relaxation enclaves, spaces for integration with nature, places of urban creation and realization of aspirations—close to the ideals of "sustainable cities" (potentially outside Gdynia).

Jury (GMO2026):  

• Michał Łukasik – photographer and promoter of modernist architecture in Poland and Europe, author of exhibitions on architecture and a modernism album of Warsaw.
• Tomasz Maryks – professional photographer, architecture photographer, lecturer at the Sopot School of Photography WFH.
• Małgorzata Szura-Piwnik – independent photographer, multiple competition laureate.
• Przemysław Kozłowski – photojournalist, journalist, co-creator of the competition.
• Piotr Wittman – Tricity-based photographer, freelancer, collaborator with many media outlets, competition winner.
• Maja Potrykus – organizer and curator of photographic exhibitions for the competition partner (Riviera Center).
• Jacek Debis – competition curator, author of the Gdynia Modernism Trail projects and concepts, representative of the organizer.
• And the competition secretary: Bartłomiej Ponikiewski, photographer, architectural photography educator, blogger.

Banner photo: Elwira Kruszelnicka – one of the photographer's works awarded in the "Gdynia Modernism in Focus" Competition.