Eric Kunsman, cradling a Hasselblad camera in his hands, stood at the intersection of Grape and Orange streets on Rochester's west side on a dreary Tuesday morning sizing up his latest subject.

To the untrained eye, there wasn't much to look at; just a closed corner store with wire mesh on its door. But Kunsman, a professional photographer and lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, saw in the grim backdrop something special: A pair of pay phones.

"What's that man doing?" a boy on a bicycle asked.

"Taking pictures of pay phones," I replied. "Have you ever used one?"

"Uh-uh," the boy said with a shake of his head as he pedaled away.