The Road Is Long & Beautiful: The Portuguese Camino de Santiago (Photo Book)
A 570 mile walking pilgrimage from Lisbon, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain along the Caminho Português (The Portuguese Way). 58 days, one & a half million steps in 35mm color photographs.
Terra Oliveira is a writer and visual artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bamboo Ridge Press, Protean Magazine, Paperbark Magazine, and elsewhere. She is of Azorean-Portuguese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, and mixed Eurasian descent.
Her poetry and illustration collection, An Old Blue Light, won the Where Are You Press Poetry Contest (judge: Clementine von Radics) in 2016. Terra was the Artist-In-Residence at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at The Great Wall of China in March of 2017, and she was also a writer-in-residence at the Hope Villa Artist Residency in the Western Ghats of India in Spring 2016. During the week, you can find her managing two bookstores in the North Bay. She believes in recovery, community, pilgrimage and retreat, and peoples' movements globally.
Written and photographed by Terra Oliveira. 199 pages (Color). Published by Recenter Press in September 2022.