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The scope of Toronto's annual celebration of photography is so large The Globe has enlisted the help of experts to point you in the right direction of the can't-miss exhibitions.

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“Sun Eclipse” from Chris Marker’s Memory of a Certain Time, showing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. <br> Doina Popescu, director at Ryerson Image Centre, picked Marker’s show, calling it “a rare and exciting treat” to experience his photography.

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Charles Henry Turner’s “Sand dunes” is part of Collected Shadows: Archive of Modern Conflict, showing at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. <br> The Archive of Modern Conflict has amassed such a photography collection, says photographer Robert Burley, that it “can mount exhibitions beyond the scope of most major museums.”

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From Light My Fire at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Henry Moore’s “Much Hadham.” <br> Contact co-founder Stephen Bulger likes that the collection includes “work from the early days of photography, together with contemporary pictures.”Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images

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“The Anonymous Chorus” from Sara Angelucci’s Provenance Unknown. <br> Art Gallery of Ontario photography curator Maia-Mari Sutnik picks this collection that presents “wonderful narratives generated from anonymous photographs that have lost their original meaning and provenance.”

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The Royal Ontario Museum will host Sebastiao Salgado’s collection Genesis. <br> Doina Popescu, Ryerson Image Centre director, says that viewers won’t be able to help but engage with Solgado’s work because of “his commitment to global environmental issues.”Sebastiao Salgado

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From Arthur S. Goss’s Work and Days at the Ryerson Image Centre. <br> Contact co-founder Stephen Bulger says the collection “offers new insight into the underappreciated work of the former City of Toronto photographer.”City of Toronto Archives

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