Tennis Courts IV

“In the winter of 1999, I began to take photographs of empty tennis courts—private, public, old, new, abandoned. Over the next twenty-three years, I made thousands of photos of these courts. Tennis Courts IV is the fourth volume dedicated to this subject. The number four is an intrinsic part of the DNA of tennis: It’s the maximum number of players in a double’s match and the fewest amount of points it takes to win a game. Tennis’s four biggest tournaments make up the Grand Slam. But this obsessive series of tennis courts photographs is never focus on tennis itself. It is more like a look at the cyclical return of the seasons, images of tennis courts throughout the years, with all their changes, the changes in the landscape, and the way I look at all those changes.”
Giasco Bertoli