A new initiative for 2026, the CCA’s Photography Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research to reexamine the spectrum of interactions between photography and architecture and our own photographic holdings.

Founded in 1974 and now inclusive of roughly 65,000 photographs, the photography collection of the CCA has been integral to the development of understandings of the relationship between photography and architecture and to establishing this relationship as a distinct field of visual and historical scholarship. The collection is rich in names and images canonized in traditional histories of photography as well as in unpublished works and series by understudied or unidentified photographers. 
For the fellowship’s inaugural year, we seek applications from researchers investigating any aspect of nineteenth-century photography—the most substantive part of the collection—as it intersects with the natural and built environment. We welcome applications from photographers and artists with a research-driven practice, researchers from all disciplines whose current projects are oriented specifically toward photography, and historians of photography and image making.

Please see the complete call here:
https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/100679/cca-photography-research-fellowship-program

The deadline for applications is 10 October 2025.