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106 Rue de Turenne
Mon-Fri: 8:30am - 4pm. Sat-Sun: 10am - 5pm.
Metro Station: Filles du Calvaire - Bus Stop: Bretagne

Fringe

Invites You To Dream

At Fringe in the 3rd arrondissement, coffee and pho- of photography that I practice is very precise. You think
tography are carefully curated. Vintage cameras sit alongside about what you’re doing. You put in all the parameters to
bags of coffee and photography books on a display shelf. get the coffee right. Then you share with your audience. In
The lights resemble floating clouds made from what at first this case, your customers.”
glance appears to be wrinkled paper. It’s a creative space, Fringe honors the craft in photography and in coffee.
one that invites you to dream a bit over a cup of coffee. The coffee shop doubles as a gallery with new photography
Large format photographer Jeff Hargrove founded exhibits going up every two months. In the same way that
Fringe in the summer of 2016. He wanted to move away the photography exhibits change the atmosphere, Jeff
from commercial photography and discovered coffee rath- sources his coffee from a variety of European roasters. “We
er accidentally. Three years before Fringe opened, Jeff have a lot of regulars, and I want them to experience some-
visited a new coffee shop opened in his neighborhood, not thing different. Maybe they can learn something about
knowing what a coffee shop was. “I had just been drinking coffee and their taste while they explore new coffees to-
the espresso available at bistros at the time. That’s all I gether with us.”
knew,” he says. “It was like a wow moment. The coffee was Though the exhibits and the coffee offerings change,
not anything I’d ever had before. It was very aromatic with Fringe still maintains the same spirit from when it opened
lots of flavors, like an explosion of flavors in my mouth.” eight years ago. “I wanted a place where we could enjoy
Jeff began barista training and found that there were good photography and good coffee and create a community
many parallels between coffee and photography. “The kind with locals. It grew a lot, but it hasn’t changed,” Jeff shares.

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