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Scotiabank Photography Award Clara Gutsche

May 7–August 2, 2025
Main Gallery

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Alanis Obomsawin: Filmstrips. Educational Shorts from the NFB (1972/1975)

May 7–August 2, 2025
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Caroline Monnet: Creatura Dada

May 7–August 2, 2025
Curator: Emmy Lee Wall

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collage of roses and preserved moth specimens. text at footer saying 240 Message (White Knight) 241 Pink Peace

Rebecca Wood: On Being Despised

June 18–August 2
Student Gallery

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Clara Gutsche, *Les Sœurs Adoratrices du Précieux-Sang, Nicolet*, 1995, chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist.

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Alanis Obomsawin, Snowshoes, single channel video (still), 1972. © National Film Board of Canada

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Caroline Monnet, Creatura Dada, single-channel video (still), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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Rebecca Wood, *Book of Gynandromorphs*, 2025. Ink jet on fabric. 72”x100.”

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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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newly wed husband and wife stand in the open door of a cable car, shot from below in front of a mountain — Fig.
Unidentified photographer, Chiu Meichu and Liu Ching-Cheng's '*Suspended Wedding*', November 28, 1970, gelatin silver print. The Wedding Photography Collection of Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, The Image Centre.

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Vows, Views, and Vernacular: Building a Wedding Photography Collection

Step inside a one-of-a-kind collection that captures the beauty, awkwardness, and unexpected moments of weddings across 135 years.

In this candid Q&A, Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash reflect on how their collection began, the stories it holds, and what makes a wedding photograph worth preserving.

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