Photo booth fans chase down the vanishing machines: ‘Kissing inside one is really fun’

Analog obsessives flocked to the International Photobooth Convention in New York City to draw the curtains – and shoot their shotsHolly Varah bartends at a dive in Port Townsend, Washington. Until this spring, she owned a photo booth. It was a private, almost confessional space, shut off from the bulk of the revelry in the bar’s side room. Soon after Varah bought the booth, someone directed her attention to its classic red curtains: the velvet drapes were short, coming down just above the hips of whoever sat in it, “so that you can’t get up to anything in there” – mainly sex or drugs. But Varah, who is 42, wanted her booth to be a space of indiscretion.“I immediately put a long curtain in,” she said. For five years, the bar had a house policy: take a nude inside the booth and receive a token for another free round.A person takes a photo at the Classic Photo Booth warehouse event in Old Bridge, New Jersey, as part of the International Photobooth Convention in New York City, on 30 August 2025. Continue reading...

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