For this project, I worked with Stray Coffee Roasters and their latest specialty coffee they crafted - the UBA FAMILY coffee, macerated with banana.

To celebrate their unique craft, I chose unique approach—using this very coffee as the medium to develop the photographs. Bringing the images to life in a way that feels overall connected, allowing the coffee to truly soak into the photographs.

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I began experimenting with Caffenol in 2024, as a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional darkroom B&W chemicals. Usually made with instant coffee, I wanted to push the method further, testing it with real coffee beans. After some trials, the vision became reality.

My approach is to document specialty coffee culture in Germany and make it last thought the photographs, which are again only allowed to appear, thanks to coffee.

Second part of my project is enlarging these photographs in the dark room and tone them with the same coffee again. Finally the last step would be to create a photo book.

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Concept and photography by me, including developing, scanning and retouch.

Shot on FUJI GS645S, BW film Kodak TRI-X TX 400