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/PotatoTomato_12]

Shush, ignorance is bliss.

[u/spaceturtle1 → u/PotatoTomato_12]

It just goes to a farm upstate where people will play ping pong on it forever.

[u/sillygoofygooose → u/spaceturtle1]

And the farmer is that one weird guy that does yoga on tables

[u/Same-Suggestion-1936 → u/sillygoofygooose]

I mean at least to our knowledge nobody fucked on it

[u/del_brio → u/sillygoofygooose]

As that little rabbit I had as a child

[u/MarthasPinYard → u/spaceturtle1]

We have a couple of these tables out on pasture. They’re doing well!

[u/rydog123bruh → u/PotatoTomato_12]

That table just got done with a 20 year shift at another park, and getting re-homed.

[u/peach_dragon → u/PotatoTomato_12]

It's OK to feel sad. No need to spin a story to take away that feeling.

[u/AvaryZig → u/PotatoTomato_12]

Ignorance isn't a delusion.