"Photographic Voyages"

Travel to 50 Countries through 300 images presented by photographer John Simone!

John Simone’s Photographic Voyages

Opening: Thursday, June 18, 2026, 7 to 10 p.m.

Exhibition runs to: July 5, 2026

Youngplace Art Centre, Third Floor Hallway Galleries

180 Shaw Street, Toronto

Curated by Kelly McCray.

A retrospective exhibition presenting 300 images from 50 countries and five continents.

"John Simone’s Photographic Voyages: A Curious Visual Atlas of the World" brings together 300 photographs from 50 countries and five continents, created during Simone’s five years working as Senior Photographer and Photography Teacher aboard Princess Cruises.

Organized into 33 themed grids, the exhibition moves beyond traditional travel photography. Simone groups images by rhythm, contrast, humour, subject, and feeling, allowing unexpected connections to emerge between cultures, objects, rituals, landscapes, architecture, and everyday encounters.

The result is a curious visual atlas: part personal archive, part global portrait, and part record of what happens when a photographer keeps looking closely at the world in motion.