Albuquerque-based photographer and educator Meggan Gould’s photographs are often fashioned from her considerations of vision and how we look at the world at large as well as how photography is used to document and speak to our surroundings. In “Viewfinders” Gould focuses on the camera apparatus itself. “Histories of looking are embedded in the [viewfinder] glass in the form of dust and scratches; etched and painted lines and text discipline and direct our sight,” says Gould. “Viewfinders are meant to be looked through,” she says. “What happens if our vision is arrested at these thresholds?” she asks. She answers, “Each camera becomes a miniature universe.”

A series of Meggan Gould’s photographs called “Viewfinders,” is featured at the Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging, 9 Brighton St., Belmont, MA, on October 15, 2015 through December 31, 2015. An opening reception will take place November 5, 2015 from 6-8 p.m.

Meggan Gould is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, and her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studied and taught photography at Speos, Paris Photographic Institute. Her photographs have been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. She was a resident artist at Light Work in 2009.