Managed by Nison Arinov, a table tennis champion from Tajikistan, the club hosts players, many from former Soviet republics, late into the night, six days a week.
For immigrants, sports can maintain a link to an identity and a culture left behind in another country. Click here to read more about the way that a community has grown around table tennis in southern Brooklyn.
For more reporting on immigration across the borough by students at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, view Brooklyn Bridges Cultures.
I’m honestly not a big fan of this image. A French photojournalists once told me that a single image of a true photojournalist should tell as many parts of a story’s lead as possible. When I see this, all I really get about the story is that it involves ping pong paddles and nothing else. I guess I miss the rest of the story. I certainly didn’t get contest from this image and I think that would have added an important layer–a layer that was energetic for aesthetic’s sake and informative, which I feel is near necessary.