Aputsiak Photography, that's me, Françoise Funk-Salamí, freelance photographer and author for over 20 years.  

Aputsiak
Aputsiak means snow crystal in Greenlandic. Pictures are taken in a moment. Every situation is unique and only lasts for an instant – fleeting like a snow crystal. Pictures are also contemporary documents of a world in constant change, snapshots that stop and freeze time - like a sky full of snowflakes that ultimately bear witness to a time of climate history in the ice of a glacier.

Philosophy
Aputsiak Photography stands for pictures from above 60 degrees north latitude, especially from Greenland, and from altitudes of over 2000 meters in the Alps. They are lonely and silent worlds, where snow and ice shape the landscape and make people appear tiny and insignificant. The special circumstances for nature and people under these extreme and fragile conditions have fascinated me since my youth. My photographic work is a search for traces of life, growth and decay in this unique cosmos.

Life path
Having grown up in the Valais Alps, I discovered my passion for mountains, snow and ice at an early age. Since studying glaciology at the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), I've been working as a freelance photographer and author in these glacier worlds. The fascination of the ice led me to North Greenland. Journeys to Avanersuaq in the far north deepened my interest in the polar Inuit culture. As a mother of four, the future of the young Inuit generation is particularly close to my heart.