Every winter, the world changes its vocabulary. Water becomes stone, rivers stop speaking, colour drains out of the landscape until only light and shadow remain. Snow Much to See is a contest for photographers who notice this change and try to translate it into images.

The idea is simple: cold is not only a season, it is a way of seeing. It reveals the structure of a tree, the silence of a city at night, the patience of an animal waiting for spring. It also tests the people who live with it, from the farmer clearing the road to the children walking to school in the dark. We want to see all of it, the beautiful and the difficult, the intimate and the vast.

Photographers can answer with a single image or with a series. A single image freezes a moment; a series follows a winter as it unfolds, slowly, from the first flakes to the last grey patches of snow. Landscape, documentary, sport, wildlife, poetic or abstract approaches are equally welcome, as are images made with a smartphone or a drone.

Every photograph is judged without the name of its author. The jury puts into words what it sees in each awarded image, and the winning works travel to Images & Neige in the French Alps, the only photography festival in Europe dedicated entirely to snow, ice and cold, where they are printed and hung for the public.