Recap

Twelve years in photographs — İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Antalya, Bodrum. Open a folder and the year opens with it.

Chronicle

From a school building to four cities

2014

İstanbul, the beginning

The first festival takes place in the Galata Greek Primary School in Karaköy. A building, not an exhibition ground — and that sets the tone for everything that follows.

2016

Ankara joins

The second location shows the format holds: a city without a pronounced specialty scene fills the ground all the same.

2022

İzmir

The third location, and the first planned from the outset around the audience of the other two.

2024

Ten years, four cities

İstanbul marks its tenth edition at Ataköy Marina: 41,388 visitors, 170 brands, 158 stands. In November, Antalya opens as the fourth location.

2027

Dortmund

The European chapter begins. The same handwriting, a new continent — and for the first time a location we claim nothing about here yet.

Picture strip

Ten years in ten pictures

Drag or swipe

A singer at the microphone in blue stage light — Ataköy Marina, İstanbul

The Ankara festival grounds at dusk, red parasols above the crowd — A full ground in Ankara

The festival site at night, a dense crowd between lit stands — Evening programme at the main stage

A band on the open-air stage in front of the festival backdrop — Stage in the afternoon

A crowded aisle between stands inside the hall — Tasting at the stand

Staff serving along a long bar counter in front of a painted mural — Equipment you can touch

A brewing bar under stone arches, visitors standing along the counter — Workshop indoors

An outdoor stand with a car displayed under a white canopy — A partner on the ground

The waterfront site from above, a pier lined with stands — The ground by the water

A band on stage in stage smoke, the crowd stretching to the back — Stands in the evening sun

The archive

Eight events. Thirty-one years. One folder each.

Photographed on the floor rather than staged for it — from the first cupping tables in 2014 to the most recent weekend. Open a folder to page through that year; the number on the folder is how many of its pictures are here.

İstanbul Coffee Festival

12editions271photos

Ankara Coffee Festival

10editions140photos

Antalya Coffee Festival

2editions63photos

İzmir Coffee Festival

2editions60photos

Bodrum Coffee Festival

1editions13photos

İstanbul Coffee Summit

1editions4photos

Barista Clash

1editions17photos

Why we show the archive

One edition proves nothing, ten do

Someone hearing about a festival for the first time cannot check its self-description. An archive they can check: how many came, who stood there, what the site looked like. So all of it is open, including the editions where less worked than planned.

Ten editionsFour citiesUnabridged

Coffee Weekend

2editions16photos