Walking

Graduate Show by ellie berry

Recently, I put work on a wall and had people come look at it. 
It felt a lot more stressful than that sentence makes it out to be. 

The largest and final project of my course is to create a body of work for exhibition. For my piece, I walked from my home in Dublin to my mother's home in Tipperary over the Easter period. The whole walk took about six days, and roughly two hundred and forty kilometres. When you're walking it's hard to keep track. 

Stylistically, I would like to say the images I made while one this walk stand half way between a documentary piece and a contemporary fine art photographic work. 

While walking I was certainly thinking about my connection to and impression of Ireland. I've been away quite a bit recently and wanted to spend some time just outside in the place I'm supposed to be from. Did I get that connection - I don't know. But I certainly want to spend more time outdoors again.

Camino Del Norte by ellie berry

Rough route of Camino Del Norte

"'Cos I'm leaving, on a jet-plane. Don't know when I'll be back again ..."

Tomorrow morning, I'm flying to Biarritz, France, and from there I'm walking about 800km to Santiago De Compostela in west Spain. I have no real previous serious walking experience, but I've bought a good pair of shoes, and I've packed light. 
For a bit of back story to the walk; the Camino is a pilgrimage of St. James the Apostle. The walk roughly starts where it was thought his body was first buried, and ends in Santiago del Compostela, where his tomb now is. The route we're taking heads along the north cost of Spain (photo above!). 
There are lots of reasons I'm doing this walk. I guess I'll decide which one is the right one while I'm over there. For now, here are two articles that have motivated me recently. 

 

And last note - I bought a new camera! So I'll be shooting this whole walk on a lovely Fujifilm X-Pro 1. See you all in a month or two.