What began as a somewhat esoteric fixation for photographer and Rochester Institute of Technology assistant professor Eric Kunsman has become a mission of goodwill.
The subject? Payphones.
It was 2017, and Kunsman dubbed his payphone photo series Felicific Calculus — referring to the math Frontier used to continue operating pay phones at a profit loss, but for a net community good. That Rochester project turned into a nationwide effort to capture photos of these monuments to a bygone era of technology…