The National Gallery of Canada quietly closed the five-year-old Canadian Photography Institute in February, the Globe and Mail reports.
The gallery's director Sasha Suda, appointed in 2019, said the institute's status as an independent organization within the gallery with reporting responsibilities to a major donor and the gallery's foundation was not tenable.
“It had been on ice for a while,” Suda told the newspaper, adding she recommended modifying the management structure to make it more accountable when she joined the gallery.
“There were certain structures in place that I found inappropriate for a Crown corporation,” she said.
The institute, established in 2015, merged art collector David Thomson’s $20-million gift of early photographs, daguerrotypes and cameras with the gallery’s photography collection under a memorandum of understanding.
Source: Globe and Mail