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The Image Centre offers a variety of fellowships for research related to photography. Research fellows have the opportunity to study select areas of the Centre’s photography collections first-hand.

These include the 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.

The Howard Tanenbaum Fellowship for Artistic Research is open to Canadian and international artists. The fellow will be expected to carry out their research on-site for a minimum of one to a maximum of four weeks, between 1 July 2026 and 15 January 2027.

Candidates may hold any level of education, and/or be independent artists with relevant experience and demonstrated interests. Candidates’ research should utilise the collections and resources of The Image Centre and/or Toronto Metropolitan University Archives and Special Collections in support of their artistic practice; they should demonstrate awareness of copyright considerations in their use of historical images; they should propose creative methodologies and outputs.

The Fellowship includes a 4,000 CAD stipend for travel, research, and other related expenses but does not include access to production facilities such as printing labs and darkrooms.