This is where the revival started. In 2004, Asger Doenst and Ole Kretschmann rescued a batch of abandoned booths in Switzerland and began putting them back on the street. There are now around 34 in the city. They sit outside, on pavements and in courtyards, on Warschauer Straße, Kastanienallee and around Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg. The strips are black and white, the light is harsh, and the queue on a Saturday night is part of the experience. For something under a roof, there are booths at C/O Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof and Markthalle Neun.

Fotoautomat has been restoring Paris booths for almost 20 years. The one to see is at 53 Rue des Trois Frères: a 1960s machine set into an oak and glass shopfront, as if the street had been built around it. Locals will tell you it is the booth from Amélie. Nobody seems to mind whether that is true. Expect a crowd on Saturday afternoons. If you would rather pair your strip with an exhibition, the Palais de Tokyo has had a booth since 2007. There are others at Bonton in the Marais, Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées and Pavillon Puebla in Buttes-Chaumont, plus Citadium on Rue de Caumartin. Outside Paris, Le Lieu Unique in Nantes has one too.

The booth is a Fotoautomat, and it sits inside Studio Arhoj on Nørregade, in the old centre. You can browse the ceramics while you wait for your strip. One warning: the first flash fires the moment you pay. Have a face ready before you reach for your card. If one strip is not enough, there is a second booth at Photobooth Station Galeria on Skindergade, a few minutes' walk away.

Six booths across the city, most of them on the street. There is one on Via del Proconsolo near the Bargello, two around the station, one in Oltrarno on Via Santa Monaca, and one in Santa Croce on Via dell'Agnolo. The Social Hub on Viale Spartaco Lavagnini has one indoors, if you want somewhere quieter.

Three booths. One is inside the Kolektor Café at the National Gallery in Holešovice, so a strip can follow the collection. The others are at Kampus Hybernská and in the Pasáž U Nováků arcade on Vodičkova.

The booth at the MuseumsQuartier is the obvious one, placed between the museums. There is another at the 25hours Hotel on Lerchenfelder Straße, around the corner, and a third at Foto Arsenal Wien.

Both are film shops, which feels right. Dubblefilm is on Carrer de Verdi in Gràcia. Analogin Barcelona is on Carrer de la Princesa in the old town. Buy a roll while you wait for the strip.

Autofoto was founded in 2009 by Rafael Hortala Vallve, who bought a 1960s booth for a wedding and kept going. It now runs a network of restored machines across the city, each one developing its strip in a small chemical drum inside the cabinet. You tap a card, sit through four flashes and wait about four minutes. Netil House in London Fields is the quiet one. Old Spitalfields Market has the queue. Tate Modern lets you make a self-portrait in a gallery that would not otherwise hang one. There are more at Coal Drops Yard, Battersea Power Station, both Hoxton hotels, The Standard in King's Cross, Waterstones on Gower Street and The Photographers' Gallery in Soho.

One of the Autofoto booths deserves its own mention. It is on the cinema level at Selfridges on Oxford Street, tucked out of the way of the shop floor. The lighting is moody and the results are clean, with sharp contrast. Expect a queue, since half of Oxford Street seems to know it is there. Go before a film, or after one, and take your strip home with the popcorn.

The newest Autofoto booth is inside Réalisation Par's flagship at 95 Mount Street. The shop is all minimal design and good dresses. The strips are not. They come out with proper analogue grit, which is a fair trade for the walk past the rails.

This one is also an art project. The photographer Simon Murphy has brought a Berlin Photoautomat, more than 100 years old, to Trongate 103 with Street Level Photoworks. It was allowed to leave Berlin on one condition: that it be used for art. Murphy is building an archive of the strips it produces, with a book in mind. Your face may end up in it. It opened in September and was still being tested then, so check before you go.

A dive bar on the edge of Wicker Park, open under this name since 1985 and largely unchanged since. The booth is in the back corner, behind the bar, beneath some taxidermy. Liz Phair shot an album cover in it. The bar is cash only and the booth is quick, so decide on a face before the money goes in.

Old Friend opened on Orchard Street in June 2024 and moved round the corner to 145 Allen Street that December. It stands on its own on the Lower East Side, with no bar to get past and no ticket to buy. Black and white, four frames, about three minutes to develop. Up to four people fit inside. It costs $8 a strip, by card or tap only, and it is open 10am to 10pm every day. Each strip is a one-off, so if two of you want a copy, pay twice. Old Friend has since added booths at 121 Orchard Street, at 243 Berry Street in Williamsburg and on West 10th Street in the West Village.

In the Castro, a room of restored vintage machines that still work. Entry is free. You pay for the strips. Photomatica also maps a self-guided booth crawl through the city's bars, from SoMa to Haight-Ashbury, which is a sensible way to spend an evening and an unwise way to spend a budget.

The Photo Booth Museum is at 3827 W Sunset Boulevard. Stay on Sunset and you can make a crawl of it: The Hunt Vintage and The Short Stop in Echo Park, then Galerie on Sunset in West Hollywood. Walt's Bar in Eagle Rock and Love Hour on South Western Avenue are worth the detour.

Alan Adler kept the black-and-white booth at Flinders Street running for more than 50 years. He took thousands of test strips of himself along the way, and was known as Australia's most photographed man. He died in December 2024, aged 92. New custodians now look after the booth. Go for the strip. Stay for the story. If one is not enough, there are others at The Curtin and Lygon Court in Carlton, on Smith Street in Collingwood, on Bowen Street at RMIT, in Brunswick and at South Melbourne Market.