Our galleries are closed for installations. Stay tuned for fall exhibitions!
Upcoming Exhibitions
- Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive
- CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions
- The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from the Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection
- Andréanne Michon: états d’esprit – states of mind
- Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81
- Mind’s Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios
- Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press
- Louie Palu: Cage Call

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.

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.

Henry Draper (American, 1837–1882), published by C. Bierstadt Publishing, Niagara Falls, NY, Full Moon, ca. 1870, albumen prints mounted on card (stereocard). The Image Centre, Gift of Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass, 2014

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

Mary Ellen Mark, Tommie Peeking Out of Room Window, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon, USA, 1976, gelatin silver print © Mary Ellen Mark Studio, New York

Ted Serios, [Ted Serios], ca. 1964-1967. Diffusion transfer print. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Coll23_11.1_1968

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.

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
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.
Explore our video archive
Watch over 60 videos of past artist talks and panel discussions featuring seminal curators and photographers.
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.
Visit past exhibitions
Explore the wide range of exhibitions on view at The Image Centre since our opening in 2012.

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