I’ve been wondering about this question for a while now. Ever since I started photographing basketball courts.

A bit of backstory

So back in 2015, I traveled from China to Argentina. and in the first week being in China I bought a bicycle to bike to the Wall. Along the ride to the wall somewhere just outside Beijing. I stopped at a gas station. After parking my bike at the gas station, I looked around and saw some ‘random’ things. like a table tennis table with matching red shoes on it, and there was a basketball hoop there. Who plays basketball here? I thought. It felt so random, such an odd place to have a basket. I thought it might be interesting to photograph this. So… I photographed it. I didn't know it at the time, but that single snapshot was the start off a decade-long photo project.

Since then I have visited 32 countries to capture basketball courts. From the courts in between high-rise buildings in New York to local hoops that stand proud in the middle of a little village in the Philippines.…