Ian Austen

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)

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 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)

These dangling wires in the Oslo bus terminal are the closest I came to finding a payphone in Norway. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri-X)

No, I have no idea how those Canada flags landed in that dumpster. I just walked past them. Bank Street and Riverdale Avenue, Ottawa. (Leica M2, 35mm f2 Summicron v2, Kodak Portra 400)

A shopping arcade in Oslo. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri-X)

Another of Tokyo's well-ventilated and well maintained phone booths. This one is in Chiyoda City. (Hasselblad SWC, A16 back, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon Kodak Tri X)

London, Trafalgar Square, outside of Canada House where the media contingent following Prime Minister Mark Carney around, a group that included me, were taken to for filing our stories, photos, and videos. (Mamiya 7ii 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri-X)

London, the city where phone booths still get attention. Just off Piccadilly Circus (Mamiya 7ii, 43mm f4.5, Kodak Tri-X)

While Streetview showed a payphone in Oslo's train station, it was gone when I went to photograph it. There would have been some once in this building. It's now a restaurant. Behind is something else that's also now rare: a large, apparently thriving dept. store. (Mamiya 7ii, 43mmf4.5, Kodak TriX)

This convenience store on the main street of Brighton, Ontario greets shoppers with a high intensity interrogation light. (Hasselblad SWC, Zeiss 38mm f4.5 Biogon, Kodak Tri-X)

The wonders that emerge each spring, in this case along Colonel By Drive in Ottawa. (Leica SL Typ 601, 28-70 Vario Elmar)

Mumbai through a van window. (Leica M4-P, 28mm f2.8 Elmarit M -- all-Canadian combo -- Fuji Acros 100II)