Mobile growth makes urban relics of payphones

Phone booths are disappearing from Abu Dhabi's streets. Delores Johnson documents the remaining few devices with one of their most popular replacements: an iPhone.

Photos by Delores Johnson / The National
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When is the last time you made a call in a telephone booth?

They’re all over Abu Dhabi but, with the advent of mobile phones, these coin- and  card-operated relics are slowly disappearing.

In a slight sardonic twist, The National’s Delores Johnson went out to capture some booths with the device that is helping to make them obsolete: her iPhone.

View all of her images here.