Celebrate 10 years of The Image Centre – visit our galleries for fall exhibitions!

What's on

Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive

September 14–December 3
Main Gallery
Guest curator: Crystal Mowry, Director of Programs, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

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CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions

September 14–December 3
University Gallery
Curator: Denise Birkhofer

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Andréanne Michon: états d'esprit – states of mind

September 14–December 3
Media Wall
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Person in white button up crop top pulls shirt collar down to reveal chest tattoo

Caeden Wigston: Dissension

November 2–December 3
Student Gallery

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Deanna Bowen, installation view of *Abolition* in Black Drones in the Hive, 2020. Inkjet prints on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.

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Séamus Gallagher (Canadian, b. 1995), *A Slippery Place* #5, 2021, inkjet print. Purchase, Canada Now Photography Acquisition Initiative, with funds from Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas Metivier, 2021.

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Andréanne Michon, *puissance énergie / energy power* (diptych), 2021, gelatin silver prints. Courtesy of the artist

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Caeden Wigston, *Rock of Ages*, 2021, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

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Klaus Kindermann, [East Berlin riots against SED government], June 1953, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre (BS.2005.018313)

Browse our collection

View highlights from our collection of nearly 375,000 objects spanning the history of the medium of photography, including the iconic Black Star Collection and several major artist archives.

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Time-lapse video of The Image Centre. Created by Anthony Saleh

Explore our video archive

Watch over 60 videos of past artist talks and panel discussions featuring seminal curators and photographers.

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Logo for the RIC's podcast, Sightlines.

Listen to Sightlines

Hear from artists, curators, and collectors about the representation of African women in photography on season 1 of our podcast, produced with The Walrus Lab for our fall 2019 exhibition, The Way She Looks.

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A man and woman looking at a black and white photograph on a wall. — Fig. 4
*Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection* (Nuit Blanche), The Image Centre, 2012 © The Image Centre

Visit past exhibitions

Explore the wide range of exhibitions on view at The Image Centre since our opening in 2012.

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A 3/4 portrait of a woman with dark hair wearing a dark button up dress and hand restraints. — Fig.
Mary Ellen Mark, [Carol T. in restraints, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon, USA], 1976, gelatin silver print © Mary Ellen Mark, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Foundation/Howard Greenberg Gallery

News

The Image Centre showcases Mary Ellen Mark’s unflinching and compassionate photographs of women living in a psychiatric facility

Ward 81—an early series by one of America’s most distinguished and respected photographers—sheds light on the invisible lives of women institutionalized for mental illness.

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