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Cameras in Focus

Opens October 3, 2026

Photographers have recorded life in Peel for over 160 years. This exhibition explores historic cameras and styles of photography, with highlights from PAMA’s collections. Discover how the photos we capture create moments of meaning.

Curated by Christine Iredale

Colour image of a folding camera with metal and wood hardware, leather bellows and exterior

Kodak No. 4 Eastman Plate Camera (Series C), around 1902. PAMA Museum collection

Black and white photograph of a young girl, seated on a chair outside, holding a teddy bear.

Peel-based photographer Betty Odlum (1924 – 2015) around 1925, holding a teddy bear that is now in PAMA’s Museum collection.

Region of Peel Archives, Betty Odlum fonds