Newark, New Jersey

‘Dead Ringers lived in my head for quite a while before I started shooting it, long before I owned a smartphone,’ the New Jersey-based photographer Amy Becker says in Lenscratch . ‘The idea came to me when I saw all these payphones, with people walking right by them while using their cellphones. I kept thinking in time there would be fewer and fewer payphones as the need diminished. Since payphones were woven into our culture for so many decades, I thought their disappearance would represent a meaningful cultural shift of one significant path of communication’