Documentary photographer Philip Gould has traveled the world, captured numerous landscapes and a rich variety of people, but nowhere compares to the soul connection he feels in south Louisiana.

At the age of 20, San Francisco Bay Area native Gould found his future behind the lens of a camera when his mom bought one that, as he says, "wasn't half bad."

"It was 1971. I commandeered it and started taking pictures like crazy," said Gould.

The new hobby led him to study journalism at a local community college and a photojournalism degree from San Jose State, knowing that he needed to make photography his career.

"It spoke to me loudly," he said.

Right out of college in 1974, Gould landed a job in New Iberia taking pictures for The Daily Iberian. The assignment turned out, for Gould, to be

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