Mary Ann, Brenda, and Diane are sisters from Canada. One of them, Silke, even owns a phone case which has the Big Ben phone box shot on it. “We have yellow phone boxes in Munster, but the colour isn’t so nice,” says a group from Germany. “These are famous in Bordeaux, because we have removed all ours now,” a French couple tell us. While generally only used as makeshift outhouses by the local population these days, red phone boxes are famously beloved by visitors to the UK, without or without their cameras. Silke and group from Munster, Germany Mary Ann, Brenda, and Diane from Canada “Yuck, it smells like piss!” On closer inspection, both are right. Another woman wanting for a selfie comes by soon afterwards and detects something a little different. There is actually poo inside there,” says Hannah from Leeds, who’s showing around Amanda from Brazil. The other? Well, it’s perfectly situated - but it has a bit of a stinky problem with it at the moment. One is a little too close to the tower for our liking: you need a really wide lens to take everything in.
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Hinges buckled by overuse, and windows frosted with the decades-old glue of stickers and calling cards, these weathered old hulks make obvious photographic props.īut the two best placed for that famous view of Big Ben are a pair on Great George Street. Near Westminster tube station are actually a few contenders for the honour of London’s most photographed phone box. There’s a kind of protocol or convention, that is quite simple and unchallenging." Amanda from Brazil, and Hannah from Leeds Therefore most people can relate to an image like this, whether they know the person or not. And maybe everyone has taken it - or a similar version, be it in London, Paris, New York, et cetera. Paul Bevan, Course Director for MA Fashion Photography at London College of Fashion, UAL, agrees that the photo's souvenir quality overrides its cliched composition. It's the kind of thing people used to write on walls. "In this picture you have two elements that are London the third is a person, saying 'I was here'. But isn't the point of the picture that this is not art photography - it is using the camera to capture a moment? "Sure, it could be tweaked a bit in its framing. "I love it," says Clive Boursnell, a photographer renowned for shooting Covent Garden through the decades. A couple of experts tell us it's not hard to see why the shot is taken endlessly. It takes just minutes to find a textbook example on social media.
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