Walk

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I find a fascinating paradox in the act of walking: a physical movement that, at the same time, can become an act of “not doing.” In that back-and-forth, the body moves, but the mind quiets, and in that stillness arises the opportunity to contemplate the surroundings in a different way.

I like to think it all began on the Camino de Santiago. For many years, I had wanted to walk it, cover long distances, lose myself in the landscape and in my own thoughts. When I was finally able to do it, that first Camino opened an important door: a new perspective. I didn’t stop there. I kept walking, with my camera as a companion.

The images in this book go beyond the Camino de Santiago; they also reflect a later period of wandering, in which walking became a way of inhabiting the world, of getting lost and finding myself at the same time.

This work was born from that experience: an attempt to capture in images the act of walking not as a means to reach a destination, but as an end in itself.

On this journey, the camera not only documents what I see, it also makes the intangible visible: feelings, emotions, and the connections that arise in those moments of pause, where I try to capture what gives life and strength to the path.

I’m drawn to solitary places, corners that invite unhurried wandering, where silence gives way to contemplation and the will dissolves before the sublime. At the same time, the interactions with people I encounter are an essential part of the experience. In every portrait, I try to convey the humanity that emerges from those encounters, where a glance or a gesture reveals the essence of a shared moment.

I don’t photograph with a preconceived concept or the intention of documenting a route.I walk, and in that walking, the images appear. There’s no rational search or predetermined plan, only the impulse of what resonates within me, letting intuition guide my gaze.

Through WALK, my intention is to capture the freedom that arises from walking and photographing, and how, through that process, I’ve learned to inhabit the path in a different way.

Each step, each image, has been a way of pausing within movement, of finding myself in what I see, and of letting myself be carried by what finds me.

This approach not only celebrates pause and contemplation as antidotes to acceleration of modern life, but also embodies the resistance of walking in the face of a culture that measures value only by speed and efficiency.

The images gathered in WALK invite immersion in the experience of walking: to live not from the urge to do, but from the fullness of being, finding in pause and in human connection the true value of time.