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<div>Dear colleagues, </div>
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<div>I am pleased to share the call for applications for the 2027 Research Fellowships at The Image Centre, including a new one-year postdoctoral position. Please see below: </div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Image Centre Research Fellowships</font></span></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
October 18, 2026</span></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">About</font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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.</font></span></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since 2014, The Image Centre has offered a variety of fellowships for research related to photography.
The fellowship program supports </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">original research in the history of photography and fellows</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Fellowship Opportunities: </font></span></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The IMC/AMC Postdoctoral Fellowship |</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
$70,000 CAD (full-time annual salary + benefits) </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jointly supported by the IMC and the Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC), this fellowship invites scholars
to undertake research across two internationally significant photography collections with an
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emphasis on press, documentary and vernacular photography from the nineteenth century to the present.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Eligibility: PhD required.</font></span></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Nadir Mohamed Postdoctoral Fellowship |</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
$10,000 CAD </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eligibility: PhD required.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Penny Rubinoff Fellowship |</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
$5,000 CAD </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eligibility:
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Master’s degree required. Current PhD students are eligible; individuals who hold a PhD and postdoctoral researchers are not eligible. </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Elaine Ling Fellowship|</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
$4,000 CAD </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eligibility:
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Current master's students or recent master's graduates. Doctoral students, individuals who hold a PhD, and postdoctoral researchers are not eligible.</span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Howard Tanenbaum Fellowship for Artistic Research |</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
$4,000 CAD </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eligibility:
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Any level of education, as well as independent artists with relevant experience and demonstrated interests.</span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Wendy Snyder MacNeil Research Fellowship</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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$4,000 CAD</span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eligibility: Current undergraduate students or graduates, as well as
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">independent artists</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with
an interest in the work of women photographers, including Wendy Snyder MacNeil. </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information regarding eligibility, application requirements, selection process and more,
please visit our website:</span><a href="https://theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font></p>
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