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CAIRO BY NIGHT
The story
behind the photo
COFFEE
DISPENSER Photo
and text by Youssef Rakha
Babellouq
is renowned for fresh ground coffee, and even at night, the interiors of
the handful of coffee dispensers glow with a peculiarly early-morning
warmth. Connoisseurs
from all over Cairo flock into that warmth for their indispensable
weekly supplies. As with many bustling shop fronts, available light was
more than sufficient for the wide aperture. The
chance presence of a customer provided a rare mid-frame focal point,
which throws the busy surroundings into optically shallow relief.
Hopefully, this tight crop
showing only the interior communicates the coffee-fumes atmosphere more
powerfully than one that shows the store's façade, with its challenging
wave-like ridges and marble-imitation columns that might have deflected
attention.
From
a work in progress called "Monochrome Cairo" by Youssef Rakha,
who can be contacted at yrakha@link.net  Technical
specifications: Shot
on Kodak TMAX 400 film, rated at ISO 1600, push processed and printed on
warm-tone, fibre-based,
normal-contrast Forte paper. Camera was Nikon F601 with Nikkor
28-80 zoom lens.
Previous
installments:
KANAFANI, TAHRIR ROAD
TYRE REPAIRS
FARGHALI FRUIT JUICE, DOKKI
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