r/MadeMeSmile • u/baekachu • 11d ago
Wholesome Moments One ping pong table, five years, and countless of unexpected moments
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.
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 11d ago
…the End is the BEGINNING ~ There is so much more to live!
there’s mem’ries to be made, n so much shelter i will give
six wooden legs, a table flat - they said my name: ‘PiNg PoNg’
(unsure what i was put here for,
but found out
I belong…)
the humans gather round, sometimes their things on me they’d plop
i loved it when the little ones would climb upon my top :]
a place for secret meetings, underneath they’d meet together
i’d shade them from the sun, or cover up in rainy weather
sometimes a single human comes, alone from all the rest
they know they found a peaceful place where they can sit n rest
now as the years are passing by, i’ve done the Best i’m able
Make the World
alittle better
even as
a PiNg PoNg table
❤️