About
The perfect coffee circle
project
Personal project beyond coffee
To celebrate the unique craft of making limited edition specialty coffee and to preserve them, I chose this unique approach—using this very coffee as the medium to develop the photographs.
Making my own, single use Caffenol developing emulsion from the very coffee I photographed.
Was preceded by testing various films and coffee.
I chose to work with middle format black and white film Kodak TRI-X TX 400/120.
When working with coffee beans, the amount of coffee is naturally higher than when using instant coffee, which is more concentrated.
The Caffenol process is chemical-free (aside from the fixer), therefore more environmentally friendly developing process suitable for Black&white films. Usually made with instant coffee, I wanted to push the method further using the real coffee beans.
The results
