Nils Strindberg (1872-1897) was a Swedish photographer that took part in Salomon August Andrée's Balloon Expedition to the North Pole in 1897. The expedition failed -three days after the departure, the balloon landed on frozen sea and the three men tried to walk homewards for three months until they died. Thirty-three years later, their remains were found and, among them, Strindberg's camera and exposed films. This article considers not only the questions that arise when we first see

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... s images -how did this photograph survived and came to us? What happened after the balloon disappeared in the horizon? -but also aims to contextualize this photographic set in the history of Arctic imagery and to analyse its semantic resonances on artistic and authorial creation, thus demonstrating its importance, beyond an historical approach. Eduardo Brito (Guimarães, 1977) holds a Master's degree in Artistic Studies -Museology and Curatorial studies -from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. At the faculty, since 2013, Eduardo is a research fellow at the I2ADS's Research Group in Art and Intermedia, researching on museology, film and visual studies and photography. Eduardo was project coordinator of Reimagining Guimarães, a photography, archive and curatorial programme developed for the Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture. On writing, photography and film, Eduardo's works explore the connections between reality, fiction and memory, as well text-image relationsboth present, for example, on the fiction books The Orcadians (Grisu, 2014) and Uma Variação Veneziana (Pianola, 2014). Eduardo wrote the scripts for the films "The Scoundrel" (Paulo Abreu, 2012) and "The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal," (Manuel Mozos, 2015) and directed the short films "Line" (2013) and "Penumbria" (2016).