Photo Booths in London
59 mapped photo booths across Greater London
Listings last updated 25 October 2026
A photo booth (often written photobooth) is a coin- or card-operated cabinet that shoots a short sequence of portraits and prints them as a strip. In London, 59 public booths are currently mapped, concentrated in six areas: Shoreditch and Brick Lane, Soho and the West End, Camden and King’s Cross, Hackney and the East, the South Bank, and Brixton and the south. Most are analog chemical machines that take about three to four minutes to develop, cost roughly £5–£8, and take coins rather than cards. Station machines are digital passport kiosks and are a different thing entirely.
Mapped Locations
Typical Strip Price
Payment Reality
Chemical Processing
Best Photo Booths in London to Start With
First time hunting a photo booth in London? These are the city’s best-known machines, each in a different kind of venue. The full list of every London booth follows below.
- 01
Rough Trade East
91 Brick Lane, London, United Kingdom
The record shop on Brick Lane and the best-known booth in the city among analog regulars.
- 02
Hoxton Hotel Shoreditch
81 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
Hotel-lobby booth on Great Eastern Street, a short walk from Old Street station.
- 03
Camden Market
54-56 Camden Lock Place, London, United Kingdom
Camden Lock Place, the anchor of the market’s cluster of machines.
- 04
Waterstones Gower Street
82 Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
The Autofoto booth inside Waterstones in Bloomsbury, close to the British Museum.
- 05
Tate Modern
Bankside, London, United Kingdom
Turbine Hall machine on Bankside, for a strip between galleries.
- 06
The Photographers' Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street, London, United Kingdom
Off Oxford Street, inside the gallery devoted to photography.
London Photo Booth Neighbourhoods
London’s booths fall into six clusters. Each card jumps to that cluster’s listings further down the page; where we hold a full neighbourhood guide, it links there too.
Shoreditch, Brick Lane & Spitalfields
The epicentre of London’s photochemical revival: the Rough Trade East booth on Brick Lane, hotel-lobby machines on Great Eastern Street and Shoreditch High Street, bar booths off Curtain Road, and the market machines at Old Spitalfields.
Soho & the West End
Central London’s densest cluster, spread across Soho’s side streets, Kingly Court, the Charing Cross Road bookshops, Piccadilly Circus cinemas, the Oxford Street department stores and the Mayfair boutiques.
Camden, King’s Cross & Bloomsbury
Camden Market alone holds several machines around Camden Lock Place, Hawley Wharf and the Lower Market. North of the West End you also get Coal Drops Yard, the Museum of Youth Culture on St Pancras Way, and the long-running Autofoto booth inside Waterstones Gower Street.
Hackney, Whitechapel & East London
A more local, less touristed set: Netil House and the Westgate Street studios, Hackney Bridge, the Victoria Park pubs, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Docklands venues out at Canary Wharf.
South Bank, Bankside & Borough
Riverside and cultural-venue booths between Waterloo and Tower Bridge, including Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall machine, the Mercato Metropolitano food hall at Newington Causeway, and the Waterloo Road and station booths.
Brixton & South London
South London’s cultural engine: Brixton’s market corridors and music venues, the Dulwich Picture Gallery machine, Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms, and the Greenwich social venues.
Elsewhere in Greater London
Booths recorded outside the six main clusters — City of London venues, Westfield in White City, and outlying pubs and social venues. Open the individual listing for the exact address.
Photobooths in London by Tube Station
Already out in the city? Find your nearest station below and jump straight to the photobooths within a short walk of it. Counts come from the same list as the rest of this page.
| Nearest stations | Area | Booths |
|---|---|---|
| Old Street, Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street, Hoxton | Shoreditch, Brick Lane & Spitalfields | 11 |
| Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Bond Street | Soho & the West End | 17 |
| Camden Town, Camden Road, King’s Cross St Pancras, Goodge Street, Holborn | Camden, King’s Cross & Bloomsbury | 10 |
| London Fields, Hackney Central, Cambridge Heath, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf | Hackney, Whitechapel & East London | 6 |
| Waterloo, Southwark, Borough, London Bridge, Elephant & Castle | South Bank, Bankside & Borough | 6 |
| Brixton, Battersea Power Station, Clapham Junction, Peckham Rye, North Dulwich | Brixton & South London | 4 |
What a London Photo Booth Costs — and How to Pay
Bring coins
Every London booth we hold payment data for accepts cash, and only 2 are recorded as taking cards. £1 and £2 coins are the reliable currency; a £10 note and a bar that will break it is the fallback plan.
Expect £5–£8
A four-pose strip typically runs £5–£8. Gallery and museum machines sit lower, at £3–£4, and a handful of brand-sponsored booths are free. Prices drift, so the figure on a listing is a guide rather than a quote.
Wait three minutes
Chemical booths dip the paper through developer and fixer before dropping the strip in the tray — three to four minutes after the last flash. Don’t walk off; strips get taken. Instant prints mean you were in a digital machine.
Every Mapped London Photo Booth
59 live records · 58 reported operational · grouped by area
Photo booths in Shoreditch (11)
The epicentre of London’s photochemical revival: the Rough Trade East booth on Brick Lane, hotel-lobby machines on Great Eastern Street and Shoreditch High Street, bar booths off Curtain Road, and the market machines at Old Spitalfields.
Full Shoreditch photo booth guide →Ace Hotel London Shoreditch
100 Shoreditch High Street, London, United Kingdom
All Star Lanes Brick Lane
95 Brick Lane, E1 6QL, London, United Kingdom
Ballie Ballerson
97-113 Curtain Rd, London, United Kingdom
Cargo
Cow Lane, London, United Kingdom
Classic Football Shirts
17 Commercial Street, London, United Kingdom
Hoxton Hotel Shoreditch
81 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom
Meatmission
Hoxton, London, United Kingdom
Old Spitalfields Market
65 Brushfield Street, London, Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom
Rough Trade East
91 Brick Lane, London, United Kingdom
The Hoxton Holborn
199-206 High Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Pizza East Shoreditch
56 Shoreditch High Street, London, London, United Kingdom
Photo booths in Soho (17)
Central London’s densest cluster, spread across Soho’s side streets, Kingly Court, the Charing Cross Road bookshops, Piccadilly Circus cinemas, the Oxford Street department stores and the Mayfair boutiques.
Full Soho photo booth guide →Albert's Schloss
20-24 Shaftesbury Ave, London, United Kingdom
Eccleston Yards
21 Eccleston Pl, Belgravia, London, United Kingdom
Foyles
107 Charing Cross Rd, Soho, WC2H 0EB, London, England, United Kingdom
H&M Oxford Street
174-176 Oxford St, London, United Kingdom
Kingly Court
Kingly St. London, London, England, United Kingdom
Lulu Lemon
187-191 Regent St, London, United Kingdom
Lululemon
Regents Street, London, United Kingdom
MEATLiquor
37-38 Margaret Street, London, United Kingdom
Picture House Central
Piccadilly Circus, Corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Ave, London, United Kingdom
Réalisation Par (Mayfair)
Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
Réalisation Par London
95 Mount Street, Mayfair, London, London, United Kingdom
Selfridges Cinema
400 Oxford Street, W1U 1AT (lower ground level), London, United Kingdom
Somerset House
Strand, London, United Kingdom
Tape London
Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
The Cinema at Selfridges
40 Duke St, London, United Kingdom
The Photographers' Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street, London, United Kingdom
W Hotel
Leicester Square, Soho, London, United Kingdom
Photo booths in Camden (10)
Camden Market alone holds several machines around Camden Lock Place, Hawley Wharf and the Lower Market. North of the West End you also get Coal Drops Yard, the Museum of Youth Culture on St Pancras Way, and the long-running Autofoto booth inside Waterstones Gower Street.
Full Camden photo booth guide →All Star Lanes Holborn
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Pl, London, United Kingdom
Autofoto
Waterstones, 82 Gower Street, WC1E 6EQ, London, United Kingdom
Camden Market
54-56 Camden Lock Place, London, United Kingdom
Camden Market Hawley Wharf
1 Dockray Place, London, United Kingdom
Camden Market Lower Market
54-56 Camden Lock Pl, London, United Kingdom
Coal Drops Yard
Lower Stable Street, London, United Kingdom
Museum of Youth Culture
51 St Pancras Way, Camden, NW1 0PZ, London, England, United Kingdom
The Standard
10 Argyle Street, London, United Kingdom
Waterstones Gower Street
82 Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
Waterstones Gower Street (Dillons Cafe)
82 Gower St, WC1E 6EQ, London, United Kingdom
Photo booths in Hackney (6)
A more local, less touristed set: Netil House and the Westgate Street studios, Hackney Bridge, the Victoria Park pubs, Whitechapel Gallery, and the Docklands venues out at Canary Wharf.
Full Hackney photo booth guide →Fairgame
Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom
Hackney Bridge
Units 1-28, Echo Building, East Bay Lane, London, United Kingdom
Netil House
1 Westgate St, London, United Kingdom
People’s Park Tavern
360 Victoria Park Road, E9 7BT, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
The Breakfast Club Canary Wharf
1 Crossrail Pl, London, United Kingdom
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom
Photo booths in South Bank (6)
Riverside and cultural-venue booths between Waterloo and Tower Bridge, including Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall machine, the Mercato Metropolitano food hall at Newington Causeway, and the Waterloo Road and station booths.
Full South Bank photo booth guide →Autofoto Photobooth
Level 1, Turbine Hall A, London, United Kingdom
Brewdog
Waterloo Station, London, United Kingdom
Mercato Metropolitano
42 Newington Causeway, London, United Kingdom
Tate – Light & Magic
Level 3, Bankside, SE1 9HL, London, England, United Kingdom
Tate Modern
Bankside, London, United Kingdom
Waterloo
111 Waterloo Rd, London, United Kingdom
Photo booths in Brixton (4)
South London’s cultural engine: Brixton’s market corridors and music venues, the Dulwich Picture Gallery machine, Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms, and the Greenwich social venues.
Full Brixton photo booth guide →Battersea Power Station
Circus Rd W, Nine Elms, SW11 8DD, London, United Kingdom
Dulwich Picture Gallery
College Road, Dulwich, SE21 7AD, London, England, United Kingdom
The Four Thieves
51 Lavender Gardens, SW11 1DJ, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Toca Social
Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
Photo booths in Greater London (5)
Booths recorded outside the six main clusters — City of London venues, Westfield in White City, and outlying pubs and social venues. Open the individual listing for the exact address.
Photo Booths at The Arcade
123 Fun St, E1 1AB, London, England, United Kingdom
Puttshack Bank
1 Poultry, EC2R 8EJ, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
The Aeronaut
264 High St, W3 9BH, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
The Duke
112 Wood Street, E17 3HX, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Westfield London
Ariel Way, W12 7GF, London, England, United Kingdom
Looking for a Passport Photo Booth Near You in London?
The booths on this page will not work for a passport. If you need a UK passport or visa photo today, look for a digital Photo-Me kiosk. These sit inside larger Tube and National Rail stations, in big supermarkets, and in many Post Office branches. Larger pharmacies and high-street photo shops will also take a compliant photo at the counter. Booth Beacon maps analog keepsake booths only, so these kiosks are not on our map.
Where to find one
Main-line stations, larger Tube stations, big supermarkets and many Post Office branches. Look for the kiosk advertising passport and ID photos, not the curtained booths in bars and record shops.
What GOV.UK requires
Printed photos must be 45mm high and 35mm wide and taken in the last month. Use a plain cream or light grey background, a neutral expression, eyes open and no glasses. Check the current rules on GOV.UK before you go.
Applying online?
Choose the digital photo code option at the kiosk or shop. You type the code into the online application instead of uploading a file. Paper forms still need two identical printed photos.
Got your passport photo and still want a strip worth keeping? The nearest analog booth is often a short walk from the station kiosk. Use the tube station table above, or the photo booth near me finder outside London.
Analog Booths vs Passport Kiosks vs Hire Booths
Searching for a photo booth in London returns two different machines. The Photo-Me kiosks in Tube stations, supermarkets and post offices are digital, print in seconds, and exist to produce compliant passport and visa photographs. The booths in this directory are the other kind: cabinets with a curtain and a stool that expose real photographic paper, develop it wet, and hand you a four-frame strip you cannot reproduce. If you need a document photo, use a station kiosk (see passport photo booths in London). If you want the strip, use the list above.
A handful of London venues run modern digital booths that still print strips — they are flagged as Digital on the cards above. They are fine for a night out, but the print is inkjet or dye-sub rather than silver-halide and will not age the same way.
Looking for photo booth hire in London for a wedding or party? That is a third, separate product. Every booth on this page is a permanent public machine you walk up to and use — there is nothing to book and no hire companies are listed.
Frequently Asked Questions about London Photo Booths
How many photo booths are there in London?
Booth Beacon currently maps 55+ photo booth locations across Greater London, almost all of them reported operational. The list on this page is generated from those records and is grouped by area, so you can see exactly which booths sit in Shoreditch, Soho, Camden, Hackney, the South Bank and South London before you travel.
Where are the best analog photo booths in London?
The highest density of authentic chemical photo booths in London is found in East London (Shoreditch, Hackney and Dalston) and South London (Brixton and Peckham). Flagship locations include Rough Trade East on Brick Lane, the Hoxton Shoreditch lobby on Great Eastern Street, and the booths clustered around Camden Lock Place.
Where can I find a photo booth in central London?
Central London booths cluster in the West End: Soho and Kingly Court, Foyles on Charing Cross Road, the Photographers' Gallery off Oxford Street, Picture House Central at Piccadilly Circus, and the cinema at Selfridges. Bloomsbury and Holborn add the Waterstones Gower Street machine and the two Hoxton Holborn booths.
How much does a photo booth strip cost in London?
Most London analog photo booths charge between £5 and £8 for a four-pose black-and-white or colour strip, with a handful of museum and gallery machines running cheaper at £3 to £4. A small number of brand-sponsored booths are free to use. Our records show pricing is the field venues change most often, so treat any figure here as a guide and check the machine.
Do London photo booths take contactless card payments?
Mostly not. Of the London booths we hold payment data for, the overwhelming majority are coin-operated and only a couple are recorded as accepting cards. A few venue booths (notably in record shops and boutique hotel lobbies) have been retrofitted with Nayax contactless readers, but you should carry £1 and £2 coins as the default.
Are there photo booths near London Underground stations?
Yes, though the machines inside stations are usually digital passport kiosks rather than chemical booths. Authentic dip-and-dunk booths sit in pubs, record shops, markets and cinemas within a five-minute walk of Old Street, Shoreditch High Street, Camden Town, Brixton, Waterloo and Tottenham Court Road. The "Photobooths in London by Tube Station" table on this page lists the nearest stations for every area.
Can I use a London photo booth for passport photos?
Not the analog ones. UK passport and visa photos need a compliant digital kiosk — typically a Photo-Me machine in a station, supermarket or post office. The chemical booths listed on this page produce a four-frame keepsake strip on photographic paper, which is not accepted for official documents.
Where is the nearest passport photo booth to me in London?
Passport photo booths in London are digital Photo-Me kiosks, and they sit in the places you already pass: inside larger Tube and National Rail stations, in big supermarkets, and in many Post Office branches. Larger pharmacies and high-street photo shops also take compliant passport photos at the counter. Booth Beacon does not map these kiosks; the booths on this page are analog keepsake machines and are not accepted for passports.
Can a passport photo booth give me a digital code for an online UK application?
Yes. Most modern passport kiosks and photo shops can give you a digital photo code alongside, or instead of, printed photos. You enter the code in the GOV.UK online application and the photo is attached automatically. Paper applications still need two identical printed photos, 45mm high and 35mm wide. No analog booth on this page can produce a code.
How long does a London photo booth take to print?
A true chemical booth develops in roughly three to four minutes after the final flash, because the paper is physically dipped through developer and fixer before it drops into the tray. Digital booths print in under a minute. If a strip arrives instantly, you were in a digital machine.
What machine models operate in London?
London runs a blend of classic British Photo-Me cabinets (including surviving Model 11 units), restored French Photomaton machines, Autofoto installations such as the one at Waterstones Gower Street, and German-style dip-and-dunk models producing archival silver-halide prints. Many venue booths are unbadged conversions.
When are London photo booths open?
Booth access follows the host venue, not the machine. Market and gallery booths (Camden Lock, Old Spitalfields, Tate Modern, Somerset House) are daytime-only; pub, bar and club booths in Shoreditch and Soho run late into the evening and past midnight at weekends. Check the venue hours on the individual booth page before travelling.
Do I need to book a London photo booth?
No. Every booth in this directory is a walk-up public machine inside a venue — you queue, pay and shoot. Booking only applies to event-hire booths, which are a different product and are not listed here.
Is this a list of photo booth hire companies in London?
No. "Photo booth London" searches mix two things: public booths you can walk into and use today, and booths you hire for a wedding or party. Booth Beacon only maps the first kind — permanent machines inside bars, shops, markets, galleries and hotels. We do not list hire companies or event booths.
Which is the most famous photo booth in London?
Rough Trade East on Brick Lane is the best-known London booth among analog enthusiasts, thanks to the record shop's long association with the machine. The Hoxton Shoreditch lobby booth and the Camden Lock Place machines are the other two most photographed.
London Neighbourhood Guides
Deeper guides to the London neighbourhoods we cover individually, each with its own booth list, transport notes and local FAQs.
Not in London?
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