Coffee Rooms and the Spaces Between Them

The archive brings together a city street, café windows, counters and cups. It is not a single-day itinerary; the photographs work as a collection of different ways to make room for coffee.

In the frame

A Manhattan street in Midtown with taxis and tall buildings

Brick storefront of a coffee shop on a West Village corner in New York

Cafe interior with exposed brick walls and a coffee bar

A flat white with latte art on a round wooden stump table

Shelves and plants on a cafe wall in New York

Some frames stay at the table, while others step back to the street or the water. Their common thread is the threshold between movement and a place to pause, rather than a ranking of the drinks.

Details worth keeping

A crowded indoor coffee event with signs and stalls

Coffee bar counter at a roastery cafe in Brooklyn

A light-coloured café storefront beneath blue sky

Cafe interior with pendant lights and a counter

A New York cafe storefront with a wooden bench outside

The Manhattan skyline seen across the Hudson River

From the same collection: When the Street Becomes the Subject, Warm Interiors, Framed by the Street.