Mobile phones control our primary method of communication. And with the once needed payphone invention, which first appeared in 1898, gradually fading to memory, this series is a glimpse back in time to appreciate the payphone’s brilliance and usefulness in their most recent last looks. Many of these phones are decayed and withering from neglect. The once coin-operated “pre-pay” mode of communication is a genius found in common necessity and will soon be forgotten to time, as miscreants continuously abuse them. Eventually the decaying phones of Los Angeles will disappear entirely, as they are the subject of this on-going study. Each photograph is an environmental portrait. And even though the phones are out of commission, they remain — a presence and absence at the same time.

Images shot on 35mm film - printed on various surfaces, including rag paper and diasec (a face-mounted acrylic process).