The village of Luceram (10 miles north of Nice) has, for the past nine years, held a festival of Crèches. There are some four hundred different crèches displayed in the village, varying from more than life size to minute.

This gallery is a tribute to the extraordinary imagination and artistry of the villagers and contains a small but varied representation of their work.

Photographic conditions are not always ideal and some of the photos suffer from my limited ability to overcome those conditions.