Photo booths are prodigious for taking an old-fashioned concept and keeping it relevant by updating its technology in some very clever ways.
ONCE the height of technology for the purposes of getting the right size photographs for driving licences, photo booths are now more a form of entertainment - an industry where they have flourished.
In fact, this is just one of many phases over the decades. The first known photo machine was featured at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1889, where a photo was transferred onto a thin sheet of metal, taking about five minutes to develop. It was an undeniable technological marvel for the time and the concept continued to develop in complexity over the following decades.
