photo_talks: What Moves You?
Meggan Gould
Meggan Gould’s studio practice is a study in playful resistance, an attempt to infuse flexibility — and joy — into the often rigid structures surrounding vision. She is deeply interested in the ways in which corporations shape our use of photographic technologies (from early Kodak to Epson, Adobe, Flickr). So much of the labor of contemporary image-making is grounded in the electronic innards of inscrutable and proprietary machines; she liberates the raw materials and language of vision (user manuals, iconography, ink!) and labors with them, allowing her hand to confront the machine.
Meggan Gould is a photographer living and working outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of New Mexico. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied anthropology; the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, where she studied non-fiction writing; and Speos (Paris Photographic Institute), where she finally began her studies in photography. Her photographs have been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Her multifaceted practice uses photography, drawing, sculpture, and installation in an open-ended dissection of vision and photographic tools.
meggangould.net
Kai McBride is a photographer, musician, teacher, and avid cyclist who recently uprooted from Brooklyn to sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent the last ten years teaching photography and managing the photo facilities at Columbia University, his alma mater, where he received an MFA in 2008.
Born on the island of Kauai in 1972, by his 18th birthday Kai had lived in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Texas, Oahu, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He sharpened his powers of observation while adjusting to life between suburban ranch-style homes, cabins with no running water, and a 20-foot teepee in the field of a commune.
His photographs have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions, and are held in public and private collections. His first monograph, About Face: Picturing Tampa, was published by SPQR Editions in Fall 2016.
Kai teaches black and white photography, photobooks, and more for StrudelmediaLive.
