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Upcoming Exhibitions

Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague.

Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press

Winter 2021
Main Gallery
Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

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A black and white photo of a backlit minor working underground.

Louie Palu: Cage Call

Winter 2021
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift

Winter 2021
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Catherine Bédard

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A grid of square photographs depicting different coloured sands and soils

Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam

Winter 2021
Student Gallery

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From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective

Fall 2021
Guest Curator: Mark Sealy
Main Gallery

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Hilmar Pabel, [Prague], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre

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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

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

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

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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

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Klaus Kindermann, [East Berlin riots against SED government], June 1953, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson 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 the Ryerson Image Centre. Created by Anthony Saleh

Explore our video archive

Watch over 60 videos of past artist talks and panel discussions featuring seminal curators and photographers.

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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), Ryerson Image Centre, 2012 © Ryerson Image Centre

Visit past exhibitions

Explore the wide range of exhibitions on view at the RIC since our opening in 2012.

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A self portrait of Burtynsky standing in front of a giant tree. — Fig. 3
Edward Burtynsky, *Self Portrait #1*, 1983, chromogenic print © Edward Burtynsky/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. The Edward Burtynsky Collection, Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the artist, 2019

News

Visionary Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky gifts career-spanning archive to the Ryerson Image Centre

November 24, 2020

The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) is proud to announce a multi-year donation of photographs by celebrated Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose iconic images have brought worldwide attention to the impacts of human industry on the natural landscape.

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