A white semi-truck with a religious message on the side, reading 'JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, ALMIGHTY GOD, THE FIRST AND THE LAST,' parked in a lot with trees and a building in the background.

Signs of Belief

About the Project

Every culture encodes its beliefs somewhere visible. The question is whether you know how to read the signs.

Signs of Belief is a long-term documentary project examining how faith expresses itself in public space across three cultures — American, English, and Italian. As an Italian photographer shaped by a European tradition where religion is ancient, stone-bound and institutional, I find myself drawn to the ways other cultures wear their belief on their sleeve, or deliberately conceal it.

2017 — ongoing

The Project - Three Parts

Each part of this project is a discrete body of work — one country, one visual language of faith, one outsider eye. Signs of Belief is a long-term project mapping the visible language of faith across three cultures. The signs change. The gesture they point toward does not.

Part 1 — Gospel of the Gulf Texas & Louisiana, 2017 — completed

In the American South, faith doesn't wait to be found. It announces itself — on truck trailers, motorcycle shop walls, pickup windows, megachurch ceilings.

Part 2 — Signs of Belief: England United Kingdom, 2021 — in development

Part 3 — Signs of Belief: Italy Italy — forthcoming