Signs of Belief: Gospel of the Gulf

“Signs of Belief: Gospel of the Gulf” is a documentary study of the idiosyncratic religious
landscape of Texas and Louisiana. As an Italian photographer, my lens is inevitably shaped
by a European, tradition-heavy cultural heritage, one where religion is often ancient,
stone-bound, and institutional. In the American South, I found a fascinating contrast: a faith
that is transient, neon-lit, and industrial.
By mapping the visual language of spiritual conviction across the humid geography of the
Gulf Coast, this work examines a territory where the sacred and the everyday are
inextricably linked. From the industrial scale of highway declarations to the quiet, tender
gestures of private devotion, these images capture a culture defined by its deep-rooted and
diverse manifestations of belief, seen through the eyes of an outsider looking for reasons to believe.

This series was shot between 2017 and 2020 while we were living in Houston, Texas.