"Answer Machines" is a ten year project capturing telephone boxes around the UK. 
 

In 1990, there were over 70,000 public telephone boxes in use across the UK, but by 2009 this number had dropped to below 8,000, with numbers expected to fall to the hundreds by the end of the 2020s as they become increasingly irrelevant.

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This project captured the telephone boxes - of varying types, models and styles - in their surroundings, where they had been situated for decades. Now, with the rise in mobile phones, many of these recognisable features of our landscapes are decaying and left semi-abandoned or forgotten as nature and time slowly reclaim them.

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Some have since been removed, some repurposed as libraries, flower displays or housing defibrilators, but many are simply left in place, a relic of a past era.