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Woman in a garden wearing a straw hat and holding her body and neck in contemplation

Scotiabank Photography Award: Ken Lum

May 15–August 3, 2024
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Hypervisibility: Early Photography and Privacy in North America, 1839–1900

May 15–August 3, 2024
University Gallery
Guest Curators: Sarah Parsons and Frances Dorenbaum

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Clarissa Tossin: Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan

May 15–August 3, 2024
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest curator: Noa Bronstein

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In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives

May 15–August 3, 2024
The Great Hall
Guest Curator: Bryce Julien

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A. Sheikh: The Test

June 26 –August 3, 2024
Student Gallery

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Ken Lum, Lau Hoi Ting Recalls a Poem of Her Youth, from the series Image/Repeated Text, 1994/2023, powder coated aluminum with vinyl. Courtesy of Magenta Plains Gallery, New York/Royale Projects, Los Angeles, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich.

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City of New York, [Broadside for the capture of William C. Murray and Ada Shreve], 1873, ink on paper with two albumen prints (wanted poster). Courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives

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Clarissa Tossin, *Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan* (still), 2013, two-channel video. Courtesy of the artist

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Alishah Ahmad, *Puzzle of Sentiments* (detail), 2023, collage. Courtesy of the artist

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Noor Awan, *Beyond Blueprints*, 2023, digital illustration, for the exhibition *A. Sheikh: The Test*. 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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Fig. Unidentified photographer for Canadian Pacific Railway Company, [Swimmers at play in the pool at Château Lake Louise, Alberta], ca. 1928, gelatin silver print with editing marks. The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, The Image Centre

News

The Image Centre launches digital access to collections

TORONTO, ON – After securing a generous grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage in 2022, The Image Centre (IMC) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is pleased to announce significant advancements in public access to Canadian photography from our holdings. This funding supports the digitization of the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, comprising more than 21,000 press photographs of Canadian news events and personalities from the New York Times Photo Archive.

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