GALLERY 44

In Search Of opens in the Members’ Gallery from July 17 - August 1, 2026! OUTREACH Awards: Thursday, July 17, 7:00PM (reception 6:00 - 8:00PM)

In Search Of celebrates the creative accomplishments of participating youth from Nia Centre for the Arts, The Remix Project and Shoot for Peace, in a culminating exhibition from OUTREACH, G44’s award-winning darkroom program for youth throughout the GTA.

Annually, Gallery 44 awards two participants from the OUTREACH program the EQ Bank Award. Recipients are awarded based on their unique approach to photography, commitment to continuing their art practice and interest in experimenting with digital image practices.

One participant from the OUTREACH program will also be awarded the TIW x G44 Award sponsored by Total Image Works and Gallery 44. Award winners are nominated by instructors and selected by a jury and receive a complimentary membership to Gallery 44 and one-on-one mentorship.

OUTREACH Awards are made possible through the support of EQ Bank and Total Image Works, with in-kind support from Downtown Camera.

📸 Cleah Fast, I’ll Save You A Seat, 8x10 silver gelatin print, 2026

After They Leave an exhibition in the Vitrines from Manny Wood Lynes-Ford closes this Saturday, July 4!

Documenting Wells, British Columbia, a historic mining and logging town on the territories of the Lhtako Dene and Secwépemc peoples, After They Leave is a testament to what happens when the relationship between humans and the land is forgotten. Lynes-Ford documents the scars left behind from the process of extraction, abandonment and the displacement of Indigenous peoples who lived in reciprocity with this land.

Presented in partnership with imagineNATIVE.

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Manny Wood Lynes-Ford is an indigenous photographer from Gitxaala, British Columbia, based in Toronto. He specializes in analog photography with a range of media from cyanotypes to chromogenic prints in the darkroom. He holds a BFA from OCAD University in photography. Working with themes of decolonization and the Indigenous experience, he draws inspiration from artists such as Fred Herzog and Carl Beam.

📸 Manny Wood Lynes-Ford, After They Leave, photo documentation by Darren Rigo at Gallery 44 (Toronto), 2026