Life speeds on with Grace walking and talking up a storm, a hectic schedule of new preservation projects at work, and a busy fall/winter of photobooth projects. This week I returned from a terrific week-long trip to Switzerland, where I participated in the opening of a new exhibition about photobooths at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. Six months ago I wouldn’t have predicted a mid-winter trip to Switerland, but in August, I was contacted by a photography museum there to write a series of brief essays on photobooths in cinema and assemble a montage of clips from those films. The show was a great experience, and the opening ended up being a gathering of photobooth artists and enthusiasts from all over the world. It was a lot of fun, and I met a lot of people I’d only either heard of or emailed with before.

In addition to attending the show, I shot a lot of video of the events and interviews with some important folks in the field. I also visited Geneva and Zürich, and took as many funiculars, cog railways, trams, metros, and trains as I could. And Switzerland has more than its fair share of all of them.

Some photos from the trip:

First, beautiful Lausanne:

At the museum, the photobooth in the café:

And the exhibition itself:

The nearby Vevey Camera Museum:

And the funicular, with a view of the sunset over Lake Geneva at the top:

A ski train to Rochers-de-Naye:

Hotel Cornavin, where Professor Calculus stayed in The Calculus Affair, in Geneva:

Dinner with photobooth friends at Curiositas:

And finally, Zürich:

The Seilbahn Rigiblick:

The Dolderbahn, which travels up to the amazing Dolder Grand Hotel:

The Polybahn, as seen from my hotel window:

And the Design Museum, where I enjoyed a great exhibition on 100 years of Swiss design:

I can’t wait to come back with Aimee and Grace sometime. It was a lovely, if brief, visit. See all of the photos here.