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<div>Please see the call for applications below for The Image Centre Research Fellowships, and please feel free to share this opportunity with your networks: </div>
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<p style="line-height:1.44;margin-left:21pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:700">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS</span></p>
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Fellowships</span></p>
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March 15, 2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">About</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Image Centre (IMC) is Canada’s leading
institution dedicated to the exhibition, research and collecting of photography. Established in 2012 at Toronto Metropolitan University, in the heart of the city, the IMC welcomes visitors to explore the intersection of photography and culture. Through compelling
exhibitions and engaging public programming, the IMC showcases work by emerging, renowned, and anonymous photographers, past and present. With a growing collection of nearly 500,000 photographic objects and an innovative scholarly research program, the IMC
is also a vibrant hub for the preservation and study of photography.</span></p>
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a variety of fellowships for research related to photography. Research fellows have the opportunity to study select areas of The Image Centre's photography collections first-hand. These include 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 a diverse group of photographers, including Werner Wolff, Jo Spence, Wendy Snyder MacNeil, Berenice Abbott, Minna Keene, Violet Keene Perinchief and Richard Harrington. </span></p>
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Opportunities: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Nadir Mohamed Postdoctoral
Fellowship |</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> $10,000 CAD </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Candidates must hold a PhD.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
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|</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> $5,000 CAD </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Candidates must hold a master’s degree;
eligible applicants include current PhD students or candidates. Individuals who hold a PhD or are postdoctoral researchers are not eligible.</span></p>
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$4,000 CAD </span></p>
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a master’s degree or be working toward its completion. Individuals enrolled in a doctoral program, holding a PhD, or serving as postdoctoral researchers are ineligible.</span></p>
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Fellowship for Artistic Research |</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
$4,000 CAD </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Open to candidates at any level of education,
as well as independent artists with relevant experience and demonstrated interests.</span></p>
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Research Fellowship</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
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$2,500</span></p>
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towards at least an undergraduate degree, and/or be photo-based artists with an interest in extended forms of portraiture.</span></p>
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application requirements, selection process and more, please visit our website:</span><a href="https://theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
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<div>With thanks, </div>
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