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The galleries are closed for installation. Join us to celebrate the opening of our winter exhibition season on January 16, 7:30–9:30pm.

Admission is always free.

Upcoming Exhibitions

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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Otherworldly: Deborah Turbeville Photographs

January 17–April 6, 2024
University Gallery
Curator: Denise Birkhofer

Portrait of a woman with a nosebleed

Brittany Newlove: What Should I Say?

January 17–February 24, 2024
Student Gallery

A film photograph showing two people standing on a beach as the sun sets.

Alexis Cordesse: Talashi

January 17–April 6, 2024
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

A carpeted room with photographs covering the entire floor.

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Peyton Keeler-Cox: Questions Nobody Asked Me

March 6–April 6, 2024
Student Gallery

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Scotiabank Photography Award: Ken Lum

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

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

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

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

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

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In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives

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

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Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945)

September 11–December 7, 2024
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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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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Deborah Turbeville, Asser Levy Public Bathhouse, New York, for Vogue (New York), 1975, black and white chromogenic print. The Image Centre, Gift of Eric Berthold, 2017 © Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

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Brittany Newlove, Nosebleed 1, 2020, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

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Alexis Cordesse, Talashi (still), 2021–2024, multi-channel video © Alexis Cordesse

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Peyton Keeler-Cox, His Story Now, 2022, vinyl. Courtesy of the artist

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Ken Lum, Lau Hoi Ting Recalls a Poem of Her Youth. Courtesy of the artist, Magenta Plains, New York and Royale Projects, Los Angeles

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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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Lee Miller, Hats, London, England, 1939, chromogenic print (printed 2023) © Lee Miller Archives

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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)

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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

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Explore our video archive

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

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

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

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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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Deborah Turbeville, Asser Levy Public Bathhouse, New York, for Vogue (New York), 1975, black and white chromogenic print. The Image Centre, Gift of Eric Berthold, 2017 © Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

News

Take in the dreamlike images of innovative fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville this winter at The Image Centre

Otherworldly: Deborah Turbeville Photographs features more than 40 works from The Image Centre’s collection—on view for the first time—by the American photographer widely credited with evolving fashion photography into an art form.