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Disconnected in Fossil

This is one of my all-time favorite payphone shots. Fossil is a small 400+ person town in Northern Oregon. I was driving with my friend Mike Burchett. We were heading to another small town for what turned out to be an incredible shoot at a small rodeo in Spray, Oregon as part of a film about a particular niche in cowboy culture. It ended up being this film Rodeo Dog. As we were driving through Fossil a phone booth was standing proudly in on a corner. I asked Mike to stop. He gladly complied and I jumped out to capture the payphone. I was shooting pix of it when this guy came by on his chopper cigarette dangling from his mouth. I’m so glad he did. Oregon is one of the few places I’ve been able to consistently find actual phone booths.

Disconnected in Detroit

Driving around Detroit was amazing. It’s clearly a city with a rich history that has seen better times. I was there for a shoot in 2017. In my off time I went to a bunch of record stores, (People’s records and Graveyard were highlights), classic local restaurants and tried to find payphones. This was the last payphone I shot on this trip. The angle it was at made me wonder how it got so bent. I can only realistically imagine that it was some sort of accident. Detroit has great payphones. I shot over 50 while I was there.

Disconnected in Oakland

I took this picture several years ago outside a Safeway that used to be nearby my home. Pretty much everything in this picture is gone now- the building, the payphones and the mailboxes. When I saw the lady using the payphone I was so excited. She had the coolest sunglasses on and somehow the picture just felt perfect. I had been taking pix of this payphone for awhile and actually have images of it when there were more working payphones than what we see in this picture.