Fall exhibitions are open! Enjoy the gallery until 8 pm on Wednesdays with our new extended evening hours.

Admission is always free.

What's on

Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague.

Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press

September 13, 2023–April 6, 2024
Main Gallery
Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

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A black and white photo of a backlit miner working underground.

Louie Palu: Cage Call

September 13–December 9, 2023
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Su Rynard: As Soon As Weather Will Permit

September 13–December 9, 2023
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Alexandra Gooding

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Hannah Somers: The Music Sang 'Lean on Me'

November 1–December 9, 2023
Student Gallery

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Hilmar Pabel, Untitled [Youngsters protesting after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by five countries of the Warsaw Pact (the USSR, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Poland), Prague, Czechoslovakia], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre

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Louie Palu, *Completion of drilling a breast in a shrinkage stope, 700 foot level, Cheminis Gold Mine, Larder Lake, Ontario*, from the series *Cage Call*, 1996 (printed 2005), gelatin silver print © Louie Palu, courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery

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Su Rynard, *As Soon As Weather Will Permit* (still), 2014, two-channel video. Courtesy of V/Tape and Paul Petro Contemporary Art

Fig. Hannah Somers: The Music Sang 'Lean on Me'
Hannah Somers, *Their Hair*, 2020, 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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A man and woman looking at a black and white photograph on a wall. — Fig. 3
*Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection* (Nuit Blanche), The Image Centre, 2012 © The Image Centre

Delve into past exhibitions

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

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Griffith J. “Griff” Davis, Untitled [Children parading, Liberia], 1950, gelatin silver print. Black Star Collection, The Image Centre

News

The Image Centre’s new exhibition chronicles the 20th century through the eyes of photojournalists and photo agencies

Stories from the Picture Press will showcase exceptional photographs of historic events and personalities, while exploring how photojournalists and photo agencies worked together to document the news and distribute images for publication.