Winter Exhibitions Opening Party

Tuesday, January 16, 2024 7:30–9:30 pm

The Image Centre, 33 Gould St., Toronto

Join us to celebrate the opening of The Image Centre's winter exhibition season. Light refreshments and a cash bar will be available.

Exhibitions on View:

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

Main Gallery

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.

Otherworldly: Deborah Turbeville Photographs

University Gallery

This collection presents more than 40 photographic works spanning the innovative career of American photographer Deborah Turbeville (1932–2013), from her major fashion commissions of the 1970s to the more personal projects of her later years. Widely credited with evolving the editorial genre of fashion photography into an art form, Turbeville de-emphasized the clothed figure in her pioneering compositions, whose often-decaying settings reinforce their dreamlike atmosphere. Experimental techniques such as soft focus, the use of printing papers with varied tones and textures, distressing or tearing of the print, and the application of masking tape or other collage elements contribute to the photographs’ otherworldly aesthetic.

Alexis Cordesse: Talashi

Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

Talashi (Arabic for fragmentation, erosion, disappearance) is a video composition made up of personal photographs entrusted to French artist Alexis Cordesse by refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, ongoing since 2011. Cordesse’s long, patient process of amassing intimate snapshots of family celebrations and quotidian activities challenges the never-ending flood of tragic and violent images produced and widely disseminated by the mainstream media.

Brittany Newlove: What Should I Say?

Student Gallery

Brittany Newlove presents a body of work that expresses an existential journey precipitated by the epidemic lockdown, one she continues to explore to the present day. As the period of solitude stretched on, her images reveal the sense of timelessness which set in, and the emerging of a deep sense of inner observation. Using photographs of herself, shadows, and objects in her apartment Newlove’s pictures deeply dissects the relationship with herself. Acutely observing the quality of the changing light in the space around her, the pictures express a consciousness of her body in the passing of time.

Admission is always free.

Gallery Hours

Sunday–Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 12–8 pm

Thursday–Saturday: 12–6 pm

Exhibition Tours

Tuesday: By appointment

Wednesday–Friday: Drop-in, 1:30 pm