The magazine of the photo-essay
November 2018 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Hayahisa Tomiyasu
TTP is a series of photographs made from the window of Hayahisa
Tomiyasu's eighth-floor student apartment in the German city of Leipzig. His
southfacing view encompasses a public park with a ping pong table, which is
the focus of his deadpan pictures. Each image is similarly composed, while
the times of day, the seasons and the visitors to the table change. As we turn
the page the function of the table mutates, from a tischtennisplatte (table
tennis table) to a sun bed, a skate obstacle, a laundry counter, a kids' climbing
frame, a work-out meeting spot, and a refuge from busy streets, among
numerous other uses. Thanks to Tomiyasu's sustained curiosity, we observe
the habits, humour and idiosyncrasies of human behaviour at the foot of this
humble table
