Willi Filz: Camino

Photographer Willi Filz traveled the two northern Spanish Caminos between 2015 and 2022, capturing enchanting landscape and nature photographs that testify to the experience of stillness and contemplation. The black and white photographs show motifs viewed directly from the Camino, drawn from moments of pause and contemplation. The photographer is not concerned with any kind of spectacular narrative, instead focusing on the incidental and the insignificant, which whisper in his ear the answers he has spent years searching for.

Format: Hardback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 11 January 2024
Publisher: Kerber Verlag

Usually, people who talk about the Camino de Santiago mention the many kilometers they have traveled, the countless encounters along the way, and evenings spent in rustic guesthouses. Willi Filz (b. 1962) traveled the two great northern Spanish Caminos between 2015 and 2022 after falling victim to a twist of fate. His enchanting landscape and nature photographs do not show streams of pilgrims, lodgings, or cathedrals, but instead bear direct testimony to the experience of stillness and contemplation. The black and white photographs show motifs viewed directly from the Camino, drawn from moments of pause and contemplation. The photographer is not concerned with any kind of spectacular narrative. “The incidental is always there on our journeys, the insignificant always plays a part - and, if I pay attention to it, it whispers in my ear many of the answers I have spent years searching for.”

Weight: 846g
Dimension: 240 x 270 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783735609502