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Dr. Gaelle Morel

Dr. Gaëlle Morel

Exhibitions Curator, The Image Centre


Ph.D. History of Contemporary Photography, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Dr. Gaëlle Morel is Exhibitions Curator at the The Image Centre (Toronto). She received her PhD in the History of Contemporary Photography from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

In 2009, Dr. Morel served as the guest curator of the Mois de la Photo in Montreal on the theme of The Spaces of the Image and edited the accompanying catalogue. In 2012, Dr. Morel curated the Berenice Abbott exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, as well as edited the accompanying publication. Most recently, she curated of Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness, an exhibition produced by the Ryerson Image Centre which toured to the National Gallery of Canada and the Nicéphore-Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, France.

She has also taught the history of contemporary art and the history of photography at the university level in both France and Canada. She co-teaches the Exhibition and Publication of Photographs course in the Film + Photography Preservation Collections Management Master’s program at the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University.

Her research deals with the artistic and cultural recognition of photography from the 1970s, and photographic modernism in the 1930s. She has written essays that have appeared in a number of magazines and books. Her most recent publication, entitled The Making of Visual News, is a collaboration with Dr. Thierry Gervais and was published in 2015.