Between Ice and Light is a new body of work by Slovenian photographer and film director Ciril Jazbec, exploring the lives of Inuit youth in Greenland and the fragile threshold between ancestral traditions and uncertain futures. Through portraits and atmospheric scenes, the series reflects on resilience, heritage, and the intimate process of coming of age in one of the world’s most remote landscapes.

Suspended between the unstable presence of melting ice and the transformative forces of modernity, the work traces the journeys of young Greenlanders as they navigate questions of identity, belonging, and survival. Rooted in a decade-long engagement in the Arctic and extending from Jazbec’s documentary film SILA, the series offers a raw and poetic meditation on youth caught between past and future.

Supported by the National Geographic Society, Between Ice and Light has been selected for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025 at the National Portrait Gallery, London.