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Upcoming Exhibitions

The planet Saturn against a black background with a shadow cast towards the top left of the image blacking out half the planet and a portion of the rings

Michael Benson: Planetfall

January 22–April 5, 2025
Main Gallery
Curator: Paul Roth

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Yann Pocreau: Towards the Light

January 22–April 5, 2025
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Kelly Richardson: Origin Stories

January 22–April 5, 2025
Media Wall
Curator: Kristen Gergely

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Ailene deVries: a stone holds my shadow

January 22–February 22, 2025
Student Gallery

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Logan Rayment: The Veteran’s Archive

March 5 - April 5, 2024
Student Gallery

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Michael Benson, *Eclipse of the Sun by Earth,* April 2, 2011, digital chromogenic print (made 2012). Credit: NASA SDO/NASA. © Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures.

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Yann Pocreau, *Lumière 01* [Lights 1], 2015, projectors with slide frames. Courtesy of the artist

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Kelly Richardson, *Origin Stories,* double-channel video, (still) 2023. Courtesy the artist.

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Ailene Devries, *How it Comes*, 2020, handwoven jacquard (cotton & wool). Courtesy of the artist

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Logan Rayment, *Punctum 2 “Plane Crash”*, 2024, Inkjet Print. Courtesty 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 80 videos of past artist talks, exhibition videos 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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*Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press* (installation view) © LF Documentation, The Image Centre

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Art Handling Apprenticeship Program (AHAP) at The Image Centre

The Image Centre is offering a paid, part-time 20-week apprenticeship for a BIPOC individual to receive mentorship and training in art handling in photography (including 5 weeks of full-time training). Program starts late January 2025.

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