Winter exhibitions open January 25, 2023.

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A woman peeks out of a small window in a doorway. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark.

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

January 25–April 1, 2023
Main Gallery
Curators: Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher

shirtless man, arm outstretched towards lens, strained expression

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

January 25–April 1, 2023
University Gallery
Guest Curator: Emily Hauver, Curator of Exhibitions, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Xie Rong: Cut Piece

January 25–April 1, 2023
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Simone Estrin

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Red identification folded card with faded text and small photograph of Chinese man

Xin He: Better City, Better Life

January 25–February 25, 2023
Student Gallery

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Mary Ellen Mark, [Tommie peeking out of room window, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon, USA], 1976, gelatin silver print © Mary Ellen Mark, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation/Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Ted Serios, [Ted Serios], ca. 1964-1967, diffusion transfer (Polaroid) print. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Xie Rong performing *Cut Piece* (for the exhibition *Yoko Ono: Peace is Power* at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany), 2019. Photograph by Alexander Schmidt

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Xin He, *Interior of buildings to be demolished* (detail), 2007, 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)

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

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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

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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 Mark 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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