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 Philadelphia-based writer by way of the Bay Area, and the founder and editor of Recenter Press. They received their B.A. in documentary film production from San Francisco State University, and their poems have been published in Protean Magazine, Prolit Magazine, Peace, Land, and Bread Magazine, Hooligan Magazine, and more. In April 2016, Terra participated in the Hope Villa Artist Residency in the Western Ghats of India, and they were the Artist-In-Residence at The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu at The Great Wall of China in March of 2017. They believe in liberation, ancestral relationships, trauma recovery, God, pilgrimage and retreat, and the working class movement for socialism.
Written and photographed by Terra Oliveira. 199 pages (Color). Published by Recenter Press in September 2022.