The National Gallery of Canada announced a call for applications for the Research Fellowship in Photography, which welcomes researchers from all cultural and educational backgrounds who are passionate about exploring, researching, and questioning photography’s history and current role in contemporary life.
The Fellowship encourages and supports an interdisciplinary approach to photography and lens-based culture in general. Welcoming critical analysis of the diverse photograph collections housed at the National Gallery of Canada, especially with respect to the role of images in colonization, diaspora, nationalism and globalization. The National Gallery of Canada values Indigenous perspectives into photography’s role in decolonization in addition to applications that explore the medium’s capacity to engage with diversity and changing notions of identity, sexuality, and gender. As well, the National Gallery of Canada encourages research into and critique of the cultural and museological processes that support photography, in both its material and virtual form, and how these could be reconsidered, especially in terms of collection and display.
Eligibility: The Fellowship is open to photography historians, curators, critics, conservators, artists, graduate students and independent and other professionals working in the visual arts or in museology and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and is open to international applicants. Researchers coming from outside Canada must do their own research on what will be required (the requirements are different for each country) for them to enter Canada for the Fellowship program.
Application Deadline: February 20, 2026
For further information about the National Gallery of Canada’s Research Fellowship or to apply, click here.
