Banovan is a photo-based project produced in 2020 that examines the role of photography in how we understand and make personal, familial, and collective memories. Originating in the artist’s desire to connect with an inaccessible family history in Iran, the project employs found family snapshots and combines them with images from a popular Iranian women’s magazine published in the 1950s. Layering and juxtaposing the female subjects pictured in the family photographs and on the magazine’s pages, the interventions create a collision of meanings where personal and sociopolitical narratives intersect. The project also addresses the complicated relationships between familial, cultural, and historical contexts that have influenced women’s lives in Iran.

Related Public Program
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Between 1991 and 2003, Canadian documentary photographer Louie Palu established himself in the mining communities of Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Over time he accumulated an extensive, in-depth body of work that revealed the living and working conditions of the miners, while also capturing the formidable industrial architecture of the pits. Cage Call gathers together more than fifty black-and-white photographs and ephemera from Palu’s visual archive of this central but often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of Canada’s industrial culture.

Related Public Programs
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Artist Talk — Louie Palu: Cage Call
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7 pm
Online via Zoom

All events take place at The Image Centre (33 Gould St., Toronto) unless otherwise noted.

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Artist Su Rynard’s correspondence with her uncle, Vernon Rowley, inspired As Soon As Weather Will Permit—the haunting and disquieting story of one soldier’s participation in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. This two-channel video combines their verbal and written exchanges with family archives, historical footage evoking nuclear warfare, and stark landscapes of the Utah airfield and bombing range where Air Force radar operator Rowley trained for the atomic mission by the US government. Threading these disparate audiovisual elements together, Rynard reconciles one person’s conflicted recollection with the collective memory of a dramatic and violent historic event.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Related Public Program
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

September 13, 2023–April 6, 2024
(Holiday Closure: December­ 10, 2023–January 16, 2024)

Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Generously supported by media sponsors The Toronto Star and blogTO.

Related Public Programs

Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Facing Black Star Book Launch
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Paul Roth

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Gaëlle Morel

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

A feast for the senses, this evocative program opens with an imaginative musical journey through touch, smell, taste, sound and sight by Peruvian composer Jimmy Lopez Bellido. Maurice Ravel’s lush and sensual Rapsodie espagnole captures the intoxicating flavours, sounds, and colours of Spain, while his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, filled with dazzling cadenzas and left-hand acrobatics, beguiles listeners into an illusion of two hands touching the keys, performed by the incomparable Seong-Jin Cho. The program concludes with the sumptuous Poem of Ecstasy by Alexander Scriabin, a musical depiction of experiences that transcend the physical senses and exist on a mystical plane.

Banovan is a photo-based project produced in 2020 that examines the role of photography in how we understand and make personal, familial, and collective memories. Originating in the artist’s desire to connect with an inaccessible family history in Iran, the project employs found family snapshots and combines them with images from a popular Iranian women’s magazine published in the 1950s. Layering and juxtaposing the female subjects pictured in the family photographs and on the magazine’s pages, the interventions create a collision of meanings where personal and sociopolitical narratives intersect. The project also addresses the complicated relationships between familial, cultural, and historical contexts that have influenced women’s lives in Iran.

Related Public Program
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Between 1991 and 2003, Canadian documentary photographer Louie Palu established himself in the mining communities of Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Over time he accumulated an extensive, in-depth body of work that revealed the living and working conditions of the miners, while also capturing the formidable industrial architecture of the pits. Cage Call gathers together more than fifty black-and-white photographs and ephemera from Palu’s visual archive of this central but often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of Canada’s industrial culture.

Related Public Programs
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Artist Talk — Louie Palu: Cage Call
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7 pm
Online via Zoom

All events take place at The Image Centre (33 Gould St., Toronto) unless otherwise noted.

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Artist Su Rynard’s correspondence with her uncle, Vernon Rowley, inspired As Soon As Weather Will Permit—the haunting and disquieting story of one soldier’s participation in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. This two-channel video combines their verbal and written exchanges with family archives, historical footage evoking nuclear warfare, and stark landscapes of the Utah airfield and bombing range where Air Force radar operator Rowley trained for the atomic mission by the US government. Threading these disparate audiovisual elements together, Rynard reconciles one person’s conflicted recollection with the collective memory of a dramatic and violent historic event.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Related Public Program
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

September 13, 2023–April 6, 2024
(Holiday Closure: December­ 10, 2023–January 16, 2024)

Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Generously supported by media sponsors The Toronto Star and blogTO.

Related Public Programs

Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Facing Black Star Book Launch
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Paul Roth

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Gaëlle Morel

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Delve into Canadian photojournalist Louie Palu’s series, Cage Call, documenting the living and working conditions of miners in Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec and the formidable industrial architecture of the pits.

About the Exhibition
Between 1991 and 2003, Canadian documentary photographer Louie Palu established himself in the mining communities of Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Over time he accumulated an extensive, in-depth body of work that revealed the living and working conditions of the miners, while also capturing the formidable industrial architecture of the pits. Cage Call gathers together more than fifty black-and-white photographs and ephemera from Palu’s visual archive of this central but often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of Canada’s industrial culture.

About the Artist
Louie Palu (Canadian, b. 1968) is a Washington, DC-based documentary photographer and filmmaker. Focusing on socio-political issues, such as war, human rights, and poverty, his photojournalism has been featured worldwide, including in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Le Figaro, El País, and The Washington Post. Palu covered conflicts in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2006–2010); the drug war in Mexico (2011–2013); the Ukrainian crisis (2015); and the militarization of the North American Arctic (2015–2019). He has published five books, including Industrial Cathedrals of the North (1999) and Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt (2007) on view in this exhibition. In 2016, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. Palu is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

Free Exhibition Tours
Tuesdays: Tours by appointment
Wednesday–Friday: 1:30pm, drop-in

Noon Time Collection Talk with Christopher Varley and Paul Roth

Join local collector and former curator Christopher Varley in conversation with IMC Director Paul Roth, as they discuss a transformative acquisition of Canadian photography. In 2019, Varley generously donated over 500 photographs from his personal collection to the IMC. Created by various Canadian makers from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these photographs document a wide range of subjects across the nation. This Noon Time Collection talk will explore how Varley acquired pictures over time, as well as the complexities of building a comprehensive collection of historical Canadian photography.

This event takes place at Peter Higdon Research Centre, 122 Bond Street, Toronto, Second floor, room RIC-241 / IMC-241. Seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Admission is always free.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

Free Exhibition Tours
Tuesdays: Tours by appointment
Wednesday–Friday: 1:30pm, drop-in

Between 1991 and 2003, Canadian documentary photographer Louie Palu established himself in the mining communities of Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Over time he accumulated an extensive, in-depth body of work that revealed the living and working conditions of the miners, while also capturing the formidable industrial architecture of the pits. Cage Call gathers together more than fifty black-and-white photographs and ephemera from Palu’s visual archive of this central but often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of Canada’s industrial culture.

Related Public Programs
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Artist Talk — Louie Palu: Cage Call
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7 pm
Online via Zoom

All events take place at The Image Centre (33 Gould St., Toronto) unless otherwise noted.

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Artist Su Rynard’s correspondence with her uncle, Vernon Rowley, inspired As Soon As Weather Will Permit—the haunting and disquieting story of one soldier’s participation in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. This two-channel video combines their verbal and written exchanges with family archives, historical footage evoking nuclear warfare, and stark landscapes of the Utah airfield and bombing range where Air Force radar operator Rowley trained for the atomic mission by the US government. Threading these disparate audiovisual elements together, Rynard reconciles one person’s conflicted recollection with the collective memory of a dramatic and violent historic event.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Related Public Program
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

September 13, 2023–April 6, 2024
(Holiday Closure: December­ 10, 2023–January 16, 2024)

Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Generously supported by media sponsors The Toronto Star and blogTO.

Related Public Programs

Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Facing Black Star Book Launch
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Paul Roth

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Gaëlle Morel

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

In her exhibition The Music Sang ‘Lean on Me’ Hannah Somers investigates her own identity by returning to her roots, creating visual conversations between her mother and aunt, biracial twin sisters adopted into a white family in the 1960s. The photographs and video featured in the exhibition recount the circumstances of the sisters’ upbringing and its effect on their racial and social identities. The imagery probes their role models, and depicts their relationship with one another through discussion and gesture. Raised within a predominantly white community, the sisters’ were aware of everyone’s eyes upon them and the stereotypes that clung to their Black individuality. Through lighthearted conversation they recount growing up with no familial connection to their heritage or the Black community. In response, they idolized and felt connected with figures in popular culture and the media.

Related Public Program

Student Gallery Opening Reception—Hannah Somers: The Music Sang ‘Lean on Me’
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Join us to celebrate the opening of Hannah Somers’ new exhibition, The Music Sang ‘Lean on Me’ in the IMC Student Gallery.

About the Exhibition
In The Music Sang ‘Lean on Me’ Hannah Somers investigates her own identity by returning to her roots, creating visual conversations between her mother and aunt, biracial twin sisters adopted into a white family in the 1960s. The photographs and video featured in the exhibition recount the circumstances of the sisters’ upbringing and its effect on their racial and social identities. The imagery probes their role models, and depicts their relationship with one another through discussion and gesture. Raised within a predominantly white community, the sisters’ were aware of everyone’s eyes upon them and the stereotypes that clung to their Black individuality. Through lighthearted conversation they recount growing up with no familial connection to their heritage or the Black community. In response, they idolized and felt connected with figures in popular culture and the media.
About the Artist
Hannah Somers is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator. She has a completed BFA at Toronto Metropolitan University in Image Arts Photography Studies. Being a biracial woman of colour with a Caribbean heritage has influenced many of her investigations. Her work centralizes around the expression and discovery of identity, ethnicity and race. Understanding different relationships and histories of these themes are important in her process. Utilizing photography, video and audio, she creates narratives within her fine art practice. She recently exhibited her work at Stephen Bulger Gallery and the Alliance Française Gallery and curated a group exhibition at the Artspace Gallery in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her work has been included in publications such as Filling Station Magazine and Public Parking Journal.
Admission is always free.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

Free Exhibition Tours
Tuesdays: Tours by appointment
Wednesday–Friday: 1:30pm, drop-in

The Hockey Hall of Fame is set to welcome hockey’s newest legends, Class of 2023 Inductees – Tom Barrasso, Henrik Lundqvist, Caroline Ouellette, Pierre Turgeon and Mike Vernon in the Player Category and Ken Hitchcock and Pierre Lacroix (honoured posthumously) in the Builder Category.

Events commemorating the Class of 2023 include a Q&A Inductee Fan Forum and the annual Hyundai Hockey Hall of Fame Legends Classic (Team Oates vs Team Nieuwendyk at Scotiabank Arena). The weekend will culminate with the Induction Celebration taking place during the evening of Monday, November 13.

Visit HHOF.com for full weekend itinerary and VIP Package and Induction Celebration ticket information.

Hockey icons Adam Oates and Joe Nieuwendyk captain two star-studded teams including Peter Forsberg, Ryan Getzlaf, Jayna Hefford, Patrick Marleau, Bryan McCabe, Stephane Richer, Angela Ruggiero, Wendel Clark others.

This game highlights the Sunday afternoon schedule of the 2023 Hockey Hall of Fame Induction Weekend Celebration. Witness hockey history as the Class of 2023 – Tom Barrasso, Ken Hitchcock, Henrik Lundqvist, Caroline Ouellette, Pierre Turgeon, Mike Vernon and Pierre Lacroix (honoured posthumously) – receives their official Honoured Member Blazers in a pre-game ceremony.

Tickets available at Ticketmaster. For full rosters, visit HHOF.com/legendsclassic

Explore more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, while learning how photojournalists and press agencies worked together to document the news and distribute images for publication. Led by co-curators Rachel Verbin and Paul Roth.

About the Exhibition
Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Admission is always free.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

Free Exhibition Tours
Tuesdays: Tours by appointment
Wednesday–Friday: 1:30pm, drop-in

Explore more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, while learning how photojournalists and press agencies worked together to document the news and distribute images for publication. Led by co-curators Rachel Verbin and Gaëlle Morel .
About the Exhibition
Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Admission is always free.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

Free Exhibition Tours
Tuesdays: Tours by appointment
Wednesday–Friday: 1:30pm, drop-in

Between 1991 and 2003, Canadian documentary photographer Louie Palu established himself in the mining communities of Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Over time he accumulated an extensive, in-depth body of work that revealed the living and working conditions of the miners, while also capturing the formidable industrial architecture of the pits. Cage Call gathers together more than fifty black-and-white photographs and ephemera from Palu’s visual archive of this central but often overlooked and misunderstood aspect of Canada’s industrial culture.

Related Public Programs
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Artist Talk — Louie Palu: Cage Call
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7 pm
Online via Zoom

All events take place at The Image Centre (33 Gould St., Toronto) unless otherwise noted.

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

Artist Su Rynard’s correspondence with her uncle, Vernon Rowley, inspired As Soon As Weather Will Permit—the haunting and disquieting story of one soldier’s participation in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. This two-channel video combines their verbal and written exchanges with family archives, historical footage evoking nuclear warfare, and stark landscapes of the Utah airfield and bombing range where Air Force radar operator Rowley trained for the atomic mission by the US government. Threading these disparate audiovisual elements together, Rynard reconciles one person’s conflicted recollection with the collective memory of a dramatic and violent historic event.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Related Public Program
Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

September 13, 2023–April 6, 2024
(Holiday Closure: December­ 10, 2023–January 16, 2024)

Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Generously supported by media sponsors The Toronto Star and blogTO.

Related Public Programs

Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Facing Black Star Book Launch
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Paul Roth

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Gaëlle Morel

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

In her exhibition The Music Sang ‘Lean on Me’ Hannah Somers investigates her own identity by returning to her roots, creating visual conversations between her mother and aunt, biracial twin sisters adopted into a white family in the 1960s. The photographs and video featured in the exhibition recount the circumstances of the sisters’ upbringing and its effect on their racial and social identities. The imagery probes their role models, and depicts their relationship with one another through discussion and gesture. Raised within a predominantly white community, the sisters’ were aware of everyone’s eyes upon them and the stereotypes that clung to their Black individuality. Through lighthearted conversation they recount growing up with no familial connection to their heritage or the Black community. In response, they idolized and felt connected with figures in popular culture and the media.

Related Public Program

Student Gallery Opening Reception—Hannah Somers: The Music Sang ‘Lean on Me’
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required

September 13, 2023–April 6, 2024
(Holiday Closure: December­ 10, 2023–January 16, 2024)

Featuring more than thirty-five stories about historic events and personalities, this exhibition explores the important role of photo agencies during the heyday of print photojournalism. Drawing from The Image Centre’s famous Black Star press photography collection as well as the archive of Canada’s national news agency, The Canadian Press, the selection spans the twentieth century—from the British movement for women’s right to vote, through the Watts riots in Los Angeles, to the Oka Crisis in Quebec. Each story illuminates a different aspect of how photojournalists have worked to document the news and distribute their photographs for publication.

Generously supported by media sponsors The Toronto Star and blogTO.

Related Public Programs

Fall Exhibitions Opening Party
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 7:30-9:30 pm

Facing Black Star Book Launch
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 6–8 pm

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Paul Roth

Special Exhibition Tour: Stories from the Picture Press
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 6 pm
Rachel Verbin & Gaëlle Morel

Admission is always free

Gallery Hours (Fall Season)
Wednesday: 12–8 pm
Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm
Sunday–Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed (Tours by appt.)

Daily Drop-in Tours (Fall Season)
Wednesday–Friday, 1:30pm
Free, no reservation required