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I met a photographer in Oxford recently, Tony Lorenzo, who shared with me his collection of small passport photographs that he has collected from the top lips of photo booths, and more oddly the concrete floors around ATMs? Tony seems to be building a collection of unknown portraits which is fascinating for its variety of characters and expressive observations. Video didn’t kill the radio star, as much as DIY digital hasn’t removed the photo booth. In Brighton I came across a shop where analogue photo booths frequent a whole shop in a fashionable quarter, where visitors come from miles to enjoy the process of seeing a print of their poses appear before their eyes from a micro chemical tank. Vive la photographic révolution.