In my second post I’ve decided to show some of the material which sparked the ideas behind the series Static Motion that I presented yesterday. It all began after flipping through a 1950s instruction book of table tennis (How to play Table Tennis by Jack Kerrington). The book instructs through both texts and photographs on how to play table tennis in a proper way. How to move your arm and body and how to perform the strokes. Frequently series of photographs was used, showing the stroke being performed step by step. Probably since a single picture was found deficient of showing the whole movement. I started collecting other sport manuals and soon found similarities in how photography had been used. The body motions instructed was clarified and enhanced through additional symbols; arrows, lines, crosses and circles. The single photograph is not enough in itself for this task. These illustrations have been added to the photographs afterwards to indicate directions of motion, explaining what had happened before and after the captured moment. This is often seen as one of the photographic mediums strengths (the decisive moment), but in this case the capturing of a moment becomes its limitation.