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Canada Correspondent, @nytimes.com. Mostly photos, mostly made on film, a lot of it large. austen@nytimes.com

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Ian Austen·Sep 9

The only payphone I've found within the City of Detroit. But I've not given up. It has many obvious issues, starting with its wires being cut. Near the border with Canada, phone's now useless coin slot says "U.S. Coins Only". (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak TriX)

A very dilapidated phone kiosk at the bottom of a cement column supporting an overhead train, the structure of which snakes off into the distance. The wires to the phone are obviously cut at the top of a pole. A Pepsi can rests in teh kiosk. Behind is a sign read: $10 Park Here. There ware several office buildings plus the side facade of a brick building that houses the Detroit Club. There are reflections on it from a mirrored glass building somewhere out of the frame.
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Ian Austen·Jun 30

One of the last low phone kiosks on Quebec Autoroute 20 between Quebec City & Montreal. They allow drivers to chat from the comfort of their cars. Something changed. It is now so low that only a child in a pedal car or an F1 driver could use it. (Shen Hao FCL810AC, 180mmf8 Super Angulon, TXP320)

A phone kiosk which is just barely off the ground. Two bent pipes flank it as protection. A tree is immediately behind and an extra tall kiosk for truckers is in the distance.
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Ian Austen·Jun 29

A super tall payphone kiosk for truck drivers on Quebec Autoroute 20 between Quebec City and Montreal. It is part of an endangered species. The small rest stops are being replaced. All of them in the eastbound side are closed, their phones gone. (Shen Hao FCL810AC, 450mmf9 Nikkor M, KodakTXP320)

A Télébec payphone kiosk about two metres tall sits next to a rest area road. Steel pipes on either side guard it from motorists. A highway and a line of trees is in the distance.
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A seasonal phone booth near the main gate of Voyageur Provincial Park, Chute-à-Blondeau, Ontario. (Rolleiflex Wide, Zeiss 55mm f4 Distagon, Y filter, Kodak Tri-X)

A black anodized Bell phone booth sitting on grass and surrounded by back lit trees. A sign to the left gives various emergency phone numbers.
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Ian Austen·20h

Blvd Mont Royal during the UCI World Champsionships Elite Men's Road Race, Montreal, Sept 27 2026. A fast descent, it was one of the few places without a huge crowd. The baby had World Champion stripes or his or her sleeves. Pano, pls click & open(Fuji GX617, 105mm f8 Fujinon, Kodak Ektacolor 800)

A panoramic view of cyclists speeding past in a blur. Black temporary fences hold back spectators including a baby on a mat. A forested cemetery across the street rises uphill and has repeated beds of red flowers.
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Foodland, Eganville, Ontario. While I was setting up, a mother explained to her school aged daughter how the payphone worked and its purpose. The girl appeared very skeptical. (Shen Hao FCL 810 AC, Schneider 120mm f8 Super Angulon, Kodak TXP 320)

A Bell phone booth underneath the overhang of a super market made from textured concrete boxes. It is at sunset and light is reflecting off windows and aluminum panes onto the walkway. There is a post office box and a shopping cart next to the booth.
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Ian Austen·5d

More of Australia's free pay phones. This one is deep in the basement of Sydney's amazing Queen Victoria Building, an impressively restored, block long shopping arcade. (Hasselblad SWC, A16 back, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

A wall mounted phone kiosk with a Telstra logo. To its left is a monitor with some sort of screen saver display and wires dangling down from the bottom.
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Ian Austen·Sep 28

The Inn on Broadway in Rochester, NY was once a club. Among its paintings of notable local scenes is this view of chimneys at Eastman Kodak, claimed circa 1900 to be the tallest in the United States at 326ft. There were postcards then as well. (Leica M4-P, 35mmf1.4 SummiluxASPH, Kodak Portra 160)

A view of a reception room with a pastoral style, vertical painting of two industrial chimneys frames by trees adn a road. To its left is a multipaned rectangular window with a tiny shrub on its sill. A door with a curved top is even more to the left. To the right is a very large window with a curved top. It has flowers in a vase. A bit of a painting showing some evergreens is further right as is part of a large chandelier. Three small tables have small floral arrangements on top of them.
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Ian Austen·Sep 26

Esso Station in Alexandria, Ontario last night (Leica M Monochrom, 35mm f1.4 Summilux M ASPH)

A Bell payphone kiosk on a dark wall next to a plastic road salt box. Behind is a dimly lit field and a line of trees
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Ian Austen·Sep 26

The Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY. (Leica M4-P, 50mm f1.2 Noctilux, Kodak Portra 160)

A textured gold curtain is at the right. To the left is a dark purple-blue wall with a screen and a ribbed texture. An illuminated red EXIT sign is quite faded
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Ian Austen·Sep 24

Rochester, N.Y. (Leica M4-P, 50mm f1.2 Noctilux ASPH, Kodak Portra 160)

A night scene of a art deco style entrance to an apartment building. The walls curve in toward a frameless glass door and have several vertical slats. An illuminated sculpture is reflected in the door. Two planters flank the entrance. Everything surrounding the entrance is black.
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Ian Austen·Sep 24

An abandoned Ontario tourist information centre on Hwy. 417/The Trans-Canada Highway just west of the Quebec border. This was shot in the spring and the phone then had a dial tone. The power was subsequently cut to the building. (Leica M4-P, 75mm f1.4 Summilux M, Fuji Acros 100)

A pay phone is mounted directly to a concrete pillar that also supports a triangular overhang. In the background is a building with a curved wall made of vertical bands of metal. The paint is coming off a metal roof to the right and behind the wall all three skylights.
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Ian Austen·Sep 23

The pay phone photos started during the pandemic with the now gone booths along Hwy 60 in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park. While one of the first photos was of a booth at the West Gate, I somehow never noticed this one inside the park office there (RolleiflexWide, Zeiss 55mmf4 Distagon, Tri-X)

A Bell payphone is mounted on a wood covered pillar in a glassed-in entrance. An oval light is above it and maps and a bulletin board are mounted to the left. Outside a kiosk with notices is visible. There is an empty telephone directory case under the phone.
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