Fresh out of college with a degree in photojournalism Gould came to work as a newspaper photographer at the Daily Iberian in New Iberia. He stayed 18 months and eventually moved to Dallas, TX to photograph for the Dallas Times Herald. After 30 months there and 11 trips back to the Bayou State, Gould quit his job and returned to Louisiana to do in depth cultural documentary photography. His initial work on contemporary/ traditional Cajun culture was eventually published in his first book Les Cadiens d’Asteur/Today’s Cajuns.