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Group Exhibition Between Life and Light

November 2, 2024 – May 24, 2025
  • Corkin Gallery
Margaret Bourke-White, Machine Dance, Moscow Ballet School, 1931. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery
2025 Corkin Gallery Bourke White Margaret Machine Dance Moscow Ballet School 1931
Margaret Bourke-White, Machine Dance, Moscow Ballet School, 1931. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery

The survey exhibition Between Life and Light celebrates over 100 years of photographic history, bringing together iconic works by historical and contemporary artists including Diane Arbus, Barbara Astman, Richard Avedon, Claude Cahun, Michelle Forsyth, Nan Goldin, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sondra Meszaros, Lucia Moholy, Sara Moon, Irving Penn, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Margaret Watkins, and more. Reflecting on the paragons of the medium featured in the exhibition—which commemorates the Gallery’s 45th anniversary—co-curator Dr. Stephen Brown says that they “tell a story for you to discover” and “[pose] endless questions to imagine and find the answers to."

2025 Corkin Gallery Meszaros Sondra She Moves Like a Knife 2024
Sondra Meszaros, She Moves Like a Knife, 2024. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery
2025 Corkin Gallery Moon Sarah Fashion#9 1997
Sarah Moon, Fashion #9 (Yohji Yamamoto), 1997. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery
2025 Corkin Gallery Barbara Astman Untitled Dear Karl 1978
Barbara Astman, Untitled (Dear Karl), From Series: I Was Thinking About You, 1978. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery

Presented by Corkin Gallery

Curated by Dr. Stephen Brown and Jane Corkin

Èxaucé: Ballet Studies by Édouard Lock

AND1357
Archives 2025 exhibition

Aurora Through the Archives: [un]Framed and in Focus

Aurora Museum & Archives
Archives 2025 exhibition

Ronnie Carrington Barbadian Folkways: they who sowed

BAND at Meridian Arts Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Natalie Hunter Bathed in Strange Light

The Bentway Studio and Terrace
2025 exhibition

Yann Pocreau The lapse in between

Blouin Division
Archives 2025 exhibition

Adam Swica Mistaken Identity

Christie Contemporary
Archives 2025 exhibition

Kiri Dalena Erased Slogans / Birds of Prey

College and Lansdowne Billboards, Dufferin and Queen Billboards
Archives 2025 Public Art

10x10 Photobooks Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print

CONTACT Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition Between Life and Light

Corkin Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Steven Beckly Handy Work

Daniel Faria Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Laure Tiberghien Time Capsule

Davisville Subway Station
Archives 2025 Public Art

Tamara Abdul Hadi Re-Imagining Return to the Marshes

Doris McCarthy Gallery, In the Instructional Centre Vitrines
Archives 2025 exhibition

Suneil Sanzgiri My Memory is Again in the Way of Your History (After Agha Shahid Ali)

Dundas and Rusholme Billboards
Archives 2025 Public Art

Andreas Koch, Pınar Öğrenci, Helena Uambembe Still Film: Photography in Motion

Goethe-Institut
Archives 2025 exhibition

Clara Gutsche

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Alanis Obomsawin Filmstrips. Educational Shorts from the NFB

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Caroline Monnet Creatura Dada

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Something Old, Something New: The Wedding Photography Collection of Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Rebecca Wood On Being Despised

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Tomaso Clavarino Emotional Geographies

Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Provinces and suburbs, margins and marginality, adolescence and uncertainty as conditions for...

Archives 2025 exhibition

Shawn Johnston the ghosts in our heads: dream states & the practice of archiving metaphysical snapshots

John B. Aird Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Sandra Brewster FISH

The McMichael
2025 exhibition

Suneil Sanzgiri An Impossible Address

Mercer Union
Archives 2025 exhibition

Nabil Azab, Shannon Garden-Smith Presence in a past or an undetermined future.

Onsite Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Rosalie Favell Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO

Onsite Gallery Exterior Windows
2025 Public Art

Jeanne Randolph Pythagoras of the Prairies

Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Archives 2025 exhibition

Ho Tam Fine China

Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Archives 2025 exhibition

Sustainable Photobook Publishing Network What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?

Photobook Lab
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition this is a place

the plumb
Archives 2025 exhibition

Ernesto Cabral de Luna, Delali Cofie, Amara King Fragile Residue

the plumb
Archives 2025 exhibition

Isabelle Hayeur The Prefix Prize

Prefix ICA @ Urbanspace Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Jordan King Untitled Polaroid Series

Queen and Augusta Billboard
Archives 2025 Public Art

Christina Leslie Pinhole Portraits and Places

Stephen Bulger Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Alanna Fields Unveiling

Strachan and King Billboards
Archives 2025 Public Art

John Latour Thursday’s Child

United Contemporary
Archives 2025 exhibition

Alison Postma Tender to the Touch

Xpace Cultural Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition Together in Quiet Light

Zalucky Contemporary
Archives 2025 exhibition
CorePublic ArtOpen CallArtistsCurators
  • Core
  • Public Art
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  • Artists
  • Curators
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition Between Life and Light

November 2, 2024 – May 24, 2025
  • Corkin Gallery
Margaret Bourke-White, Machine Dance, Moscow Ballet School, 1931. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery
2025 Corkin Gallery Bourke White Margaret Machine Dance Moscow Ballet School 1931
Margaret Bourke-White, Machine Dance, Moscow Ballet School, 1931. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery

The survey exhibition Between Life and Light celebrates over 100 years of photographic history, bringing together iconic works by historical and contemporary artists including Diane Arbus, Barbara Astman, Richard Avedon, Claude Cahun, Michelle Forsyth, Nan Goldin, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sondra Meszaros, Lucia Moholy, Sara Moon, Irving Penn, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Margaret Watkins, and more. Reflecting on the paragons of the medium featured in the exhibition—which commemorates the Gallery’s 45th anniversary—co-curator Dr. Stephen Brown says that they “tell a story for you to discover” and “[pose] endless questions to imagine and find the answers to."

2025 Corkin Gallery Meszaros Sondra She Moves Like a Knife 2024
Sondra Meszaros, She Moves Like a Knife, 2024. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery
2025 Corkin Gallery Moon Sarah Fashion#9 1997
Sarah Moon, Fashion #9 (Yohji Yamamoto), 1997. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery
2025 Corkin Gallery Barbara Astman Untitled Dear Karl 1978
Barbara Astman, Untitled (Dear Karl), From Series: I Was Thinking About You, 1978. Courtesy of Corkin Gallery

Presented by Corkin Gallery

Curated by Dr. Stephen Brown and Jane Corkin

Èxaucé: Ballet Studies by Édouard Lock

AND1357
Archives 2025 exhibition

Aurora Through the Archives: [un]Framed and in Focus

Aurora Museum & Archives
Archives 2025 exhibition

Ronnie Carrington Barbadian Folkways: they who sowed

BAND at Meridian Arts Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Natalie Hunter Bathed in Strange Light

The Bentway Studio and Terrace
2025 exhibition

Yann Pocreau The lapse in between

Blouin Division
Archives 2025 exhibition

Adam Swica Mistaken Identity

Christie Contemporary
Archives 2025 exhibition

Kiri Dalena Erased Slogans / Birds of Prey

College and Lansdowne Billboards, Dufferin and Queen Billboards
Archives 2025 Public Art

10x10 Photobooks Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print

CONTACT Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition Between Life and Light

Corkin Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Steven Beckly Handy Work

Daniel Faria Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Laure Tiberghien Time Capsule

Davisville Subway Station
Archives 2025 Public Art

Tamara Abdul Hadi Re-Imagining Return to the Marshes

Doris McCarthy Gallery, In the Instructional Centre Vitrines
Archives 2025 exhibition

Suneil Sanzgiri My Memory is Again in the Way of Your History (After Agha Shahid Ali)

Dundas and Rusholme Billboards
Archives 2025 Public Art

Andreas Koch, Pınar Öğrenci, Helena Uambembe Still Film: Photography in Motion

Goethe-Institut
Archives 2025 exhibition

Clara Gutsche

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Alanis Obomsawin Filmstrips. Educational Shorts from the NFB

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Caroline Monnet Creatura Dada

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Something Old, Something New: The Wedding Photography Collection of Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Rebecca Wood On Being Despised

The Image Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Tomaso Clavarino Emotional Geographies

Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Provinces and suburbs, margins and marginality, adolescence and uncertainty as conditions for...

Archives 2025 exhibition

Shawn Johnston the ghosts in our heads: dream states & the practice of archiving metaphysical snapshots

John B. Aird Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Sandra Brewster FISH

The McMichael
2025 exhibition

Suneil Sanzgiri An Impossible Address

Mercer Union
Archives 2025 exhibition

Nabil Azab, Shannon Garden-Smith Presence in a past or an undetermined future.

Onsite Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Rosalie Favell Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO

Onsite Gallery Exterior Windows
2025 Public Art

Jeanne Randolph Pythagoras of the Prairies

Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Archives 2025 exhibition

Ho Tam Fine China

Paul Petro Contemporary Art
Archives 2025 exhibition

Sustainable Photobook Publishing Network What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?

Photobook Lab
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition this is a place

the plumb
Archives 2025 exhibition

Ernesto Cabral de Luna, Delali Cofie, Amara King Fragile Residue

the plumb
Archives 2025 exhibition

Isabelle Hayeur The Prefix Prize

Prefix ICA @ Urbanspace Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Jordan King Untitled Polaroid Series

Queen and Augusta Billboard
Archives 2025 Public Art

Christina Leslie Pinhole Portraits and Places

Stephen Bulger Gallery
Archives 2025 exhibition

Alanna Fields Unveiling

Strachan and King Billboards
Archives 2025 Public Art

John Latour Thursday’s Child

United Contemporary
Archives 2025 exhibition

Alison Postma Tender to the Touch

Xpace Cultural Centre
Archives 2025 exhibition

Group Exhibition Together in Quiet Light

Zalucky Contemporary
Archives 2025 exhibition

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CONTACT is a Toronto based non-profit organization dedicated to exhibiting, analyzing and celebrating photography and lens-based media through an annual festival that takes place every May.

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CONTACT acknowledges that we live and work on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and that this land is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. CONTACT is committed to promoting Indigenous voices; to generating spaces for ongoing, meaningful, and creative Indigenous-settler dialogue; and to continuous learning about our place on this land.

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