The Way of Sant James

• The exhibition, which opens the commemorative programme of the XXX anniversary of the Foundation of the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago in the Community of Valencia, can be visited until February 27 in the Palau del Intendente Pineda in Valencia.

• It arrived in Valencia after a long trip which began in 2008 with its inauguration in Paris.

• Tomohiro Muda twice a pilgrim to Santiago de Compostela photographing the Jacobean Route and offering his own view of the Camino.

Turismo de Galicia in collaboration with the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago of the Community of Valencia inaugurated the exhibition Camino de Santiago. A View from the East, of the Japanese photographer Tomohiro Muda.

The exhibition, which opens the commemorative programme of the XXX anniversary of the Foundation of the Association of Friends of the Camino de Santiago in the Community of Valencia, can be visited until February 27 in the Palau del Intendente Pineda in Valencia.

The exhibition arrived in Valencia after a long trip which began in 2008 with its inauguration in Paris in Valencia after a long trip which began in 2008 with its inauguration in Paris. Subsequently it travelled to Mexico D.F., Wakayama and Tokyo, where it was exhibited for three months in the Aida Museum.

In 2010 it travelled to several Town Halls of Galicia on the Camino de Santiago such as Palas de Rei, Redondela, Dumbría, Ames, Muxía and Fisterra, showing the view of the experience which the pilgrimage produced in this Japanese photographer.

In 2011, thanks to the collaboration of the Spanish Consulate in Hamburg, it was exhibited in several cities in Germany, Lübeck, Hamburg, Hannover, Buxtehude and Kiel, with great success among the public and continued its trip in 2012 when it was inaugurated in Regensburg. It also travelled to Malaga and Castuera.

Tomohiro Muda

Tomohiro Muda is a Japanese photographer who travelled twice on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela photographing the Jacobean Route and offering his own view of the Camino. Muda declares himself to be a love of the French Romantic period and especially of the Spanish Romantic period of Santiago de Compostela and the Jacobean pilgrimage.

He was born in 1956 in the Prefecture of Nara, in Japan, and in 1988 presented his first exhibition The Land of Sherpa with photographs he took in Serpa, in the Himalayas.