Due to COVID-19, the RIC remains closed until further notice.
Upcoming Exhibitions
- Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam
- Emmanuelle Léonard: Deployment
- Susan Dobson: Slide | Lecture
- Scotiabank Photography Award: Dana Claxton
- Hal Wilsdon: I would die for Johnny Knoxville and I would shoot Chris Burden
- Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift
- Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers
- From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective
- Mary Ellen Mark Ward 81
- Louie Palu: Cage Call
- Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press

Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Instants (detail), 2020, vinyl. Courtesy of the artist

Emmanuelle Léonard, Soldat la nuit, Resolute, 2019, inkjet print © Emmanuelle Léonard

Susan Dobson, Robert Frank: The Americans, 2020, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery

Dana Claxton, Lasso, 2018, LED firebox with transmounted chromogenic transparency. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund

Hal Wilsdon, Extreme 2, 2019, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

Dominique Blain, Dérive/Drift (still), 2019, silent video installation. Courtesy of the artist

Unknown photographer, [Man in make-up wearing a woman’s ring, United States], ca. 1920, gelatin silver (photobooth) print with colour retouching © 2016 Éditions Textuel – Collection Sébastien Lifshitz

Sunil Gupta, Untitled #22, from the series Christopher Street, New York 1976, 1976 (printed 2014), inkjet print © Sunil Gupta. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London and New York; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto; and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

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

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

Hilmar Pabel, [Prague], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre
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 RIC since our opening in 2012.

Francis Bedford, Wells Cathedral, Interior of The Nave, Looking West, 1860 (or later), albumen print. The Francis Bedford Research Collection, Ryerson Image Centre