The café is on a corner where two bus routes cross. It opens at half past five, which is early for a café and late for the people who arrive first.
Photographed across one week, always in the same ninety minutes.
01The Place
The corner has been a café for longer than the building has had its current windows.
02The Person
The first table by the window is taken before the lights at the back are switched on.
03The Environment
The kitchen runs on two pots and a schedule nobody has written down.
04The Action
Tea is poured from a height, twice. Neither pour is for show — it cools it enough to drink before the bus comes.
05The Detail
The newspaper is folded to the same page every morning: departures and delays.
06The Relationship
Two people have shared this table for years, and do not sit down at the same time.
07The Quiet Moment
For about twenty minutes between the two shifts, the room has more chairs than people in it.
08The Closing Image
By eight the windows have fogged, and the corner outside belongs to a different set of people.
Field notes
- Photographed across one week.
- Everyone photographed inside was asked first, and told where the images might appear.
- Edited for tone, colour and crop only. Nothing added, nothing removed.
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