Booths are popping up in various places all around Europe. Bars and clubs and even interior galleries of museums in Paris are often inundated with socialites and jet-setters who often use the booths.
There are 11 booths in Germnay and they are maintained by the same two guys that accidentally kick-started the trend in 2005: Asger Doenst and Ole Kretschmann.
Getting the idea after they restored one for fun in 2003, it took two years and a lot of trial and error before they could start their business venture and bring them to the streets of Germany.
For two euros, anyone can step inside the booth, envision it's 1970 again, take some zany photographs, and receive their retro black and white photos within seconds.
Now, these men and their volunteers maintain these booths -- and they are in need of daily repair -- for free; that is, they don't make money from them. That's love, especially when you consider that Doenst personally thinks that Berlin is "disgusting"; which is the reason they require so much cleaning.
Whereas photo booths in the rest of Europe are becoming poplar in clubs and bars, these booths in Germany are in the public along sidewalks and shopping centers. Perhaps they could find a way to profit from their idea is by better researching their local logistics and potentially exporting it to America
For example, I've been to Germany, and just like these booths they also have public toilets that are literally just giant rooms you walk into -- once you pay of course -- where you can freshen up. They could contact the city and perhaps integrate photo booth technology in those bathrooms as opposed to having actual photo booths from the '70s that require constant work.
Here are some things I found doing a simple search for technology available regarding photo booths:
As well as the article referenced:
http://www.thelocal.de/lifestyle/20110310-33591.html
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