The final day of the convention started off with a talk by Jen and Marco about their Photobooth Technicians Project followed by a Q&A. Then we were off to see a slate of photobooth-centric films at Anthology Film Archives. The team at Photobooth.net had to get back to their families and were not able to join the final event of the convention, a boat cruise around NYC. Another convention comes to a close.

The convention rolled on with a busy and energizing day on Saturday, including a trip to the Classic Photobooth warehouse in New Jersey, time in the booths at AUTOPHOTO, and an evening at Union Pool with talks by Tim and Emily and a performance by Hercusleaze.

The International Photobooth Convention got into full swing today with talks at Carmelo’s Bar in Brooklyn, the opening of Autophoto’s space on Orchard Street with special guests and presentations, and long lines of excited attendees looking to try out a variety of photobooths.

The day is finally here! The convention kicked off with a mixer this evening at Lou’s Athletic Club in Brooklyn. Swag bags were distributed and merriment ensued.

As many in the photobooth community converge on New York City for the 2025 International Photobooth Convention, which begins tomorrow, we have a raft of location updates posted in the Photobooth Directory, demonstrating the ongoing health of the international analog photobooth community. Cheers, everyone! A quick rundown: 

First, two booths in Gilbert, Arizona, contributed by Hallie, one of which produces the quite uncommon three-photo strip, at Barnone:



And across the street at Beer Barn:



Thanks to Claudia, we have a new listing for Netil House in London, once again home to an analog booth:



Thanks again to Claudia, and her sister, who provided us with an update on a new location at Foto Arsenal Wien in Vienna, Austria:



Thanks to Camille for letting us know about the booth at Far i hatten in Malmö, Sweden, the only analog booth we have listed in the country.



Thanks to Sam for the photos and info on a lovely Model 14 at AppleDoll Pop-Up on Abbot Kinney in Venice, California, not far from the location of the 2012 International Photobooth Convention.



Vince let us know about a booth he has refurbished at the new location of Mutiny Information Cafe in Denver: 



Thanks to repeat contributors Olivia and Spenser for providing us with info and photos from the booth at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge, a Booth by Bryant machine located on the 18th floor of the Moxy Hotel.



Thanks, as ever, to our many contributors the world over, and for those of you coming to New York for the convention, we’ll see you soon!

One of the downsides to running a website for 20 years is that you sometimes outlive an underlying technology the site is built on. At two different times over the last two decades, the software Photobooth.net used to power our photobooth discussion forum either went out of business or stopped being maintained. 

At long last, the forum is now back online, with yet a new software package doing the heavy lifting. If you previously had an account, you should be able to reclaim it. Just click “Log In” in the top right corner of the main forum page, then click “Forgot Password.” As long as you still have access to the email you used previously, you should be able to reset your password and pick up where you left off.

We realize forum software might have fallen out of favor in this Instagram age, but we think the more permanent nature of a discussion forum helps preserve and transmit knowledge. So enjoy this little time capsule that dates back to 2005, and post away.

While the blog has been quiet lately, we’ve been working behind the scenes to add a lot of new material to the site, some of which is getting highlighted over on our Instagram, from locations to movies, and albums to TV shows. Here’s a taste of what’s been added lately in this, the twentieth year of Photobooth.net:

Since the beginning of 2025, we’ve added 26 new photobooth locations around the world, from New York to Atlanta, Los Angeles to Denver, and all around the world. We began the year with a new photobooth location in Zürich, and just this week, added the first location we’ve listed for an analog photobooth in Portugal.

Check out all of our location listings, now filterable by whether or not (to our knowledge) the booth is active, around the world. Thanks to all of our location contributors, and please, keep them coming!

The first Swiss film featuring a photobooth has joined the ranks of our Photobooths in Movies listings: Seuls, directed by Francis Reusser, features the first photobooth opening credits sequence we’ve seen, and an abandoned set of photos drives the story.

Some other recent additions include our first Finnish film in the catalog, Rikos ja rangaistus, an adaptation of Crime and Punishment directed by Aki Kaurismäki, as well as a couple of minor 1970s appearances from my recent slow-motion binge of movies from that decade, Kramer vs. Kramer (a second listed photostrip appearance for Meryl Streep!) and The Laughing Policeman.

We capture a broad range of TV shows in our listings, as well, with new additions from “Better Call Saul,” “Peppa Pig,” and “The Conners.”

We’ve also been doing a bit of site maintenance, with an upgrade to our Photobooth Blog Archives, enabling readers to peruse 20 years of photobooth news, with more projects in the works. We’re looking forward to the 2025 International Photobooth Convention in New York in August, and hope to see many of our readers there. 

Hungarian archivist and historian János Mátyás Balogh let us know about a short essay he wrote on Anatol Josepho for the Hungarian National Archives. The essay is an abstract of a longer article he had previously written (in Hungarian). Later, Hungary’s largest newspaper wrote a piece about his research (also in Hungarian). All three pieces stem from János’s original research which included communications with the Josepho family.

The image at right is a newspaper advert János found in a 1930 Copenhagen newspaper.

[Ed. note: we just found this post languishing in our unpublished posts archive. Sorry for the delay, János! As we embark on the 100-year commemoration of Josepho’s invention, the post seems only more appropriate now.]

The 2025 International Photobooth Convention is a lock! Mark your calendars for August 28–31, 2025 in New York City. Details to follow, but in the meantime, head over to the convention landing page and add your email to get updates in your inbox.

During the legislative session on the final day of the most recent International Photobooth Convention in London, the assembled delegates voted unanimously to affirm the most reasonable spelling of the word “photobooth”: the spelling containing no spaces. Well-meaning members of the press and public continue to misspell the word by inserting a pesky space between the “o” and the “b”, thereby turning a single tidy word into an unwieldy and unnecessary bifurcation.

The matter was referred to the full session of delegates by the Subcommittee on Naming and Conventions sometime in the past year.

The full press release can be found here.