Alpine Hiatus: The Snow No Longer Tastes Like Snow By Filippo Poli

What if the snow you grew up with… simply disappeared?

In Alpine Hiatus: The Snow No Longer Tastes Like Snow, Italian photographer and architect Filippo Poli takes us on an emotional journey through a landscape that no longer matches our memories. Winner of the April 2026 All About Photo Solo Exhibition, this powerful series shows the Alps not as timeless and untouched—but as something changing, fragile, and deeply human.

For many of us, mountains feel eternal. Snowy peaks, endless white, pure silence. But Poli challenges that image. Returning to Cervinia in Italy’s Aosta Valley—where he spent winters as a child—he finds a very different reality. The snow is no longer what it used to be. In its place: artificial reservoirs, snow cannons, and landscapes reshaped to maintain the illusion of winter.

What makes this project so moving is how personal it is. Poli doesn’t just document change—he feels it. By placing his family’s old black-and-white photographs next to his own contemporary images, he creates a striking contrast between past and present. The result? A quiet but powerful realization: what once felt permanent is now slipping away.

And yet, this isn’t just about one place. It’s about all of us. About the landscapes we inherit, and what we pass on. About how memory and reality don’t always align anymore.

There’s no dramatic message here—no loud warning signs. Instead, Poli’s images speak softly. But they stay with you.

Because in the end, Alpine Hiatus isn’t just about snow. It’s about loss, change, and the strange feeling of returning somewhere that no longer feels the same.

More info: all-about-photo.com

Matterhorn, 4.478 m – Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Enrico, my grandfather, looking at the Matterhorn from the balcony of our home. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Tarpaulins on the snow-from the previous season. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Le Grand Murailles. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Ski lifts at 3500 m. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Skiers climbing the mountain, 1932. Family archive © Filippo Poli

Matterhorn Glacier Paradise © Filippo Poli

The green Alps. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Hiato alpino © Filippo Poli

Snow cannon, type 2 © Filippo Poli

At the foot of the Matterhorn © Filippo Poli

From Plateau Rosa © Filippo Poli

Gazing at the Alpine panorama. Family archive © Filippo Poli

Artificial reservoir Gran Sometta, 2.982 m. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Plateau Rosa, 3.500 m © Filippo Poli

Medical devices 3.125 m © Filippo Poli

Alpine Archaeology: a pylon before removal. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

The New Alps, 3.092 m. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

Theodul Glacier © Filippo Poli

My grandmother, Ornella, gazing her Alps in the 1930s. Location: Breuil, Cervinia © Filippo Poli

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