When was the last time you used a payphone? For New Yorkers, the answer is probably one they can’t remember, so the city today announced it will replace those payphones with up to 10,000 new kiosks armed with free gigabit Wi-Fi…
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Nunhead Cemetery, London
Don’t get locked in after dark…do you really want to trust that this phone works?
Recent travels
We visited Australia recently, stopping at Dubai airport and getting out at Singapore for a few days on the return leg. The Dubai airport phones seem bright and shiny and new, Sydney provides you with a map of the city, Melbourne have a colour thing going on with pink and orange shelters and Singapore airport caters for the disabled:
Dubai airport
Sydney
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne museum
Singapore airport
Chinatown, Singapore
An extra from GOMA, Brisbane…
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Shanghai, China
Two from Matthew’s visit not so long ago:
Some random old photos
These are the last of my older photos that should have been uploaded long ago…
Cairo, Egypt (I think)
Hong Kong
Albufeural, Portugal
Ireland
Here are some from about a year ago when we visited Ireland:
Cobh
Cork
Dublin
Galway
old style
Istanbul, Turkey
We recently visited Istanbul and came across a real variety of phone boxes. I traveled here many years ago but it was the trip before my decision to photograph phone boxes on my travels so it was good to go back and make up for missed opportunities.
I like this one hidden within a stall, behind the Blue Mosque…
Me at the airport with the English phone box version in the background:
and some more…
Ok so I understand why I see phone boxes in older tv shows and films, but they are still a feature in many current plots such as The Blacklist (USA), The Code (Australia) and Being Human (USA). You’d be forgiven for thinking that the popularity of the mobile phone would mean that the phone box would disappear from many cultural products, but not so.
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