Fascinated by photography since his childhood, Frédéric Boiteux has been working for more than 20 years in Cluses. In his shop, with his wife Marie-Laure, or outside, he will meet your expectations. Invested in the territory, he is also the creator of the Images & Neige festival, which has met with great success.
The passion for photography
I started photography in CM2 with my dad who was a teacher. We made photograms, developments and the passion immediately took hold of me. In high school and college, I participated in a photo club. I then decided to make it my job: I took a BTS photography course. Then I started my business in 1995.
Store history
It all started in Lorraine, then in Paris, and now in Cluses for 20 years. We are installed, with my wife, at 30 rue du Pré Bénévix, just behind the church. Cluses Images Numériques has existed for almost 50 years. 2 photographers succeeded each other before me.
I continued in the spirit of Cluses Images de Monsieur Latouche by taking social photos, portraits. But I also brought my touch of modernity, in industry or advertising.
A bundle of services
There are several centers in the store: firstly there is a boutique area where you can sell frames, prints and albums. A studio space where we do portrait photography and also advertising photography. I also take exterior shots, on the ground or by drone. I also produce illustration reportage views, for example for the tourist office and also industrial views.
The Images & Snow festival
The Images & Neige festival was born with the tourist office 13 years ago. We came up with the idea of a photo festival on the snow, because I knew a few photographers who liked to work in cold conditions. This element is also a marker of global warming, which gave me the idea of this specificity.
The festival is unique in France, in Europe, and even perhaps in the world in terms of pure and hard photography on snow and ice. The 13rd edition has just taken place: it was a great success. Images & Neige brings together between 15 and 20 photographers each year.
A work on the territory
Two years ago, my wife and I decided to create a book project called "Aerial Stroll Between Arve & Giffre" to connect the two valleys: the Giffre Valley and the Arve Valley. The photographs are less landscape-oriented and more urban, featuring images of the valley's more industrial side. They also include natural scenery, with the surrounding villages, which are particularly beautiful covered in snow, as well as in summer.
These aerial views sublimate the landscape.
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