THE Polish Summer Festival was launched this morning with the unveiling of a major new al fresco art installation in St Helier.

Ten huge photographic images have been suspended from buildings in Charing Cross heralding the birth of the major new feature in Jersey’s cultural calendar.

Each picture celebrates the many faces of the Island’s Polish community and is a prelude to the main event which runs between 9 and 14 June.

The images are black and white with flashes of red to signify the Polish flag.

The exhibition is entitled Jestem Polakiem, which means I am Polish.

It is the work of Tomasz Olesszczak, a 22-year-old Polish Islander from Warsaw with a training in fashion photography.

Other events planned for the week-long celebration of Polish food, music, art and culture in June, include a Chopin piano recital, a fashion show, a Polish pub night and the grand finale – an open-air concert headlined by Polish band Myslovitz.