The Image Center - Fellowship

The Image Centre will offer five competitive fellowships for research related to photography in 2026. Fellowship awards range from $2,500-$10,000 CAD. Research fellows have the opportunity to study select areas of The Image Centre's photography collections first-hand, including the acclaimed Black Star Collection of photo-reportage with over a quarter-million prints spanning the 20th century; a historic and fine art photography collection; The Francis Bedford Research Collection; The Edward Burtynsky Collection; The Braun-Epstein Collection; The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection (NYT); and several archives devoted to the life and work of photographers including Werner Wolff, Jo Spence, Wendy Snyder MacNeil, Berenice Abbott, Minna Keene, Violet Keene Perinchief and Richard Harrington. Since 2014, The Image Centre has offered a variety of fellowships for research related to photography. This opportunity is open to international applicants.