Popular Drinks Photographed Under a Microscope

Fingerprints of Drinkable Culture is a photo series by photographer William LeGoullon that explores what popular beverages look like under a microscope.

In this series, I treat the world’s top five most consumed man-made beverages like scientific specimens, allowing each liquid sample to dry before photographing them using a microscope. The resulting images provide us with a chance to analyze these fingerprints of drinkable culture as an act of art consumption.

Can you figure out the drinks that are shown in these photographs?

Here are the answers: coffee, tea, wine, cola, and beer.

Image credits: Photographs by William LeGoullon and used with permission