Taking Off on the Camino de Santiago (Swiss Press Online 2019, by Marianne Grosjean) - Swiss Press Award
La Tribune de Genève
Marianne Grosjean
It begins with the decision: what do I take with me and what do I leave behind, so that the backpack does not become too heavy? For three months and over 1900 kilometres, Marianne Grosjean decorated the path to Santiago de Compostela with pebbles: reports, photos, columns, videos. A path on which “you start as a tourist and arrive as a pilgrim” and where frequently “the dead walk alongside the living”. The trail of the pebbles is replicated on an interactive map where the encounters, discoveries, wonders, exhaustion and mishaps of the wandering journalist can be followed. “The pilgrimage is not the Way of St. James, it is the people we meet en route, the hosts, the locals, the pilgrims … It is also the person we discover within ourselves,” says Marianne, admitting that she wept in the cathedral. And it is this transformation that inspires the visual and written content she shares with us along her way.
Interview with Marianne Grosjean
