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Meggan Gould is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools鈥攏amely, cameras鈥攈ave been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image鈥攖he varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons鈥攓uestioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series 7 Pictures Remaining, the artist鈥檚 images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all of the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a 鈥渟hadow archive鈥� within the CMP technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould鈥檚 own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.