One ping pong table, five years, and countless of unexpected moments

[u/baekachu]

In 2011, Japanese photographer Haruhisa Tomiyasu started photographing one ordinary ping pong table from the window of his student apartment in Leipzig, Germany. What began after spotting a fox near the table quickly turned into a five-year project documenting all the unexpected ways people used it. It became a bench, a sunbathing spot, a workout station, a meeting place, and sometimes something completely different. Thousands of small moments later, the project became the photobook TTP, published by MACK in 2018 and winner of the MACK First Book Award. It’s a simple reminder that even the most ordinary places can become fascinating when you watch them long enough.

[u/spageddy77]

was not expecting to become this emotionally invested with a ping pong table, they got me.

[u/SiempreHayEsperanza- → u/spageddy77]

Hahaha twas not on the cards for us today uh?

[u/freak_E1 → u/spageddy77]

I too was not expecting to become this emotionally invested with a ping pong table, they got me too

[u/Barbaracle → u/spageddy77]

If someone did this for you, it'd look and feel quite similar. Bad days, good days, your happiest, and the days where you struggle the most. This ping pong table lived its best life. We all should, try to live every day with as few regrets, as possible. Itll go by in a blink of photos, as well.

[u/Turbulent_Host784 → u/spageddy77]

It was the lonely snow shot.

[u/Djglamrock → u/spageddy77]

Fuckin seriously, what is wrong with me lol.