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Francis Teynier
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    • Public spaces
      • Protection or prison ?
      • Endangered species
      • Anonymous colours
      • I pile, you pile
      • In the waiting of …
      • Walls have ears
      • Need a stop
      • Two wheels with ideas
      • Not running water
      • Worlds from under
      • I enclose, you enclose
      • Send, receive
    • Just passing by
      • Which way
      • Just passing by
      • Home ports
      • Light in the countryside
      • Land, sea
      • Rooms with a view
      • Allowed to forbid
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Endangered species

Urban furniture also ages and dies, often after a long agony – or a new youth, according to the case.

Telephone booths are no exception. Daughters of times where fixed lines were scarce, when locally elected were ready to do anything to get these terminals offering basic communication services. They are almost everywhere progressively supplanted by modern competitors.

Some – among the most fashionable – resist and still offer their services to locals and to tourists, some only have left their decrepit shell, unless advertisement for some time save their skin. Other have undergone some rehabilitation, if as a local internet terminal, if as a shelter against rain, if as street libraries. I am waiting to see how far imagination will reach.


Une création Océan Digital - 2020