What Is Booth by Bryant, and How Can You Get the Look?

What Booth by Bryant is, who Bryant Eslava is, and where you can actually visit the booths in Costa Mesa, San Diego, and NYC — plus how Booth by Flashbulb brings the same vintage photo strip look to your own wedding or event.

Scroll long enough and you'll hit one: a narrow strip of portraits, grainy and a little old-time, looking like it fell out of a machine in 1954. Someone famous is usually in it. Everyone in the comments wants to know where it came from.

That's Booth by Bryant. If you're a regular social media user — or a fan of The Kardashians — it's highly likely you've already stumbled onto it.

Here's the part nobody mentions: you don't need an invitation to a Los Angeles party to get that look. (You just need us.)

What Is Booth by Bryant?

Booth by Bryant is a creative project launched by Bryant Eslava, a renowned California-based photographer. In its simplest form, it's a vintage photo booth from the 1950s that Eslava acquired himself. He welcomes his high-profile friends in to experience the booth, and it produces nostalgic, intimate portraits instantly.

Since revealing the acquisition, Bryant has been showcasing the pictures on his personal Instagram and on the dedicated account for the booth. That distinctive, somewhat grainy, old-time output caught on fast with Hollywood's elite and the thriving Los Angeles social media community, and the strips have become a dominant feature of Instagram and TikTok timelines ever since.

The appeal isn't complicated. Four frames, printed on the spot, intimate in a way a phone camera never quite manages.

Who Is Bryant Eslava?

Bryant Eslava is an American photographer and content creator known for his portraits of influencers and celebrities — often shooting emerging online stars early, and helping shape how they looked to the world on the way up. The booth grew out of that same instinct: put someone interesting in front of a camera with no room to overthink it, and print the result before they can ask for a retake.

The strips have since featured the Kardashians, Jaden Smith, Lil Wayne, Martha Stewart, and the cast of Succession, among others. The machine itself was supplied by Photo Illusion, a Los Angeles company that operates dozens of vintage booths around the city.

Where Can You Actually Visit Booth by Bryant?

This is the question we get asked most, so here is the honest answer: Booth by Bryant is a set of walk-in locations, not a rental company. You go to the booth; the booth does not come to you.

As of September 2026, per their own site:

• Costa Mesa, CA — 2944 Randolph Ave, inside Camp Out. The flagship, with the largest collection of booths.
• San Diego, CA — 2310 Kettner Blvd, inside Day to Day Collective, in Little Italy.
• New York City — at the Magic Hour Rooftop, 485 7th Ave.

Strips run about $5 for analog and $4 for digital (which includes a digital copy). No reservation, all ages, and they're pet friendly. If you want the real thing and you're near one of those, go — it's genuinely a great afternoon.

Searching for Booth by Bryant in Los Angeles? That one trips people up. The West Hollywood location is listed as closed, and their site now points Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Houston visitors to Photo Illusion instead. So if you went looking for a Booth by Bryant in LA and came up empty, you weren't imagining it.

(Locations and pricing change — check their site before you drive out.)

Visiting a Booth vs. Bringing One to Your Event

Here's the distinction that matters, and it's the reason this page exists.

A walk-in booth is perfect for a Saturday. It is not an option for a wedding reception in Los Angeles, a corporate holiday party in New York, or a gala in Boston — because your two hundred guests are not going to leave the venue, drive across town, and queue up one at a time.

That's the gap we fill. Same look, brought to your room, with an attendant who keeps the line moving and gear that will not pick your reception as the night it finally quits.

Booth by Flashbulb: The Vintage Look, Modern Everything Else

Well, we have some great news. We created Booth by Flashbulb so you can get a similar look to the Booth by Bryant vintage style photo booth — at your wedding, your gala, your holiday party, wherever you want it.

Even better, we use all modern tech. That gives you a clean, classy af setup with a vintage-style output, plus equipment reliable enough to handle any number of guests. We are honestly not sure how reliable a photo booth from the 1950s would be seven decades on, and your reception is not the night to find out.

(If the polished, high-key celebrity portrait is more your flavor, that's a different look entirely — our Glam Booth handles that one.)

The Setup: A Tight Crop and a Tiny Footprint

Our setup starts with a clean, white backdrop, but we can also shoot on a black backdrop or a wall for whatever unique look you're after. We crop the photos in tightly to mimic a picture from an enclosed photo booth. Don't worry, though — all our photo booths are open-air, so your guests can move around freely instead of wrestling with a curtain.

That cropped look pays a very practical dividend. Because we aren't building a box around anyone, we can minimize our footprint to fit even the tiniest venue spaces: the corner of a Scottsdale ballroom, a Paradise Valley patio, a Sedona terrace, a historic Tucson courtyard, a Phoenix rooftop. You can get the look wherever you want it. Even on a boat.

The Prints: 2x6 Strips That Keep the Vintage Soul

Your gorgeous prints come out as 2x6" photo strips — high-quality printing that still keeps the authenticity of a vintage photo booth look. Add the option for text-message sharing and every guest leaves with a digital copy they can post immediately. Or go fully analog: print it, snap a picture of the strip, and share it on Instagram (tag us @Flashbulb_Memories_Photobooth, because we genuinely love seeing them out in the wild).

Either way, the strip ends up on a refrigerator and the picture of the strip ends up online. That double life is exactly what made Booth by Bryant famous in the first place.

It's nostalgic without being fussy, small without feeling cramped, and famous-looking without a single celebrity on your guest list. Want to know how it actually plays in a room full of guests? Our reviews tell that story better than we can.