Images & Neige

The Cluses photography festival, founded in 2010, devoted to snow, ice and cold. Your photos are shown there indoors and outdoors, face to face with the element they depict. 17th edition: 22–24 January 2027.

The Images & Neige festival

Founded 16 years ago in Cluses, Haute-Savoie, by Frédéric Boiteux, Images & Neige is the only photography festival in Europe entirely devoted to snow, ice and cold. 17th edition: 22–24 January 2027.

Works are shown indoors and outdoors, sometimes in very large formats, exposed to the real winter cold. The festival also offers talks, screenings and workshops.

In 2025, it opened to the world with Snow Much to See, whose first edition was launched on Picter, the international photo contest platform: the winners’ photographs were printed on aluminium Dibond, framed and exhibited at the festival. Following its success, we decided to move to imagora for greater flexibility.

The festival on the City of Cluses website

16years of festival
~200works shown each edition
600+artists exhibited in 3 years
2settings: indoors and open air
Overhead view of the Images & Neige exhibition hall, lined with lit photographs.
Children looking at a large print of polar bears.
Visitors walking among large framed prints of snowy landscapes.
The festival hall with its screens and photo walls.
The public gathered in front of the photographs at the festival.

“This outdoor display has become one of our distinctive features, placing the images face to face with the very element they depict.”

Frédéric Boiteux, founder of the festival, 2023 Silver Medal of the French Professional Photography Federation (Commercial category)

Practical information

  • Dates: 17th edition, 22 to 24 January 2027, 10 am to 7 pm.
  • Where: Cluses, Haute-Savoie, in the French Alps.
  • Organisation: the City of Cluses, partner of the contest, hosts the winners’ exhibition.
  • The 2025 winners of Snow Much to See were exhibited there in January 2026; the 2026 winners will be, in January 2027.
Festival photo Images & Neige

The festival on the City of Cluses website: cluses.fr.

Images & Neige on Facebook

Applications open from 1 to 30 November 2026

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