Scenic, improvised and dilapidated basketball courts around the world are documented in these photographs by Bill Bamberger, which form an exhibition at Washington DC's National Building Museum.
The Hoops exhibition include photos of basketball courts all over the world, like in this backyard in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, or a school playground in Harlem (main image)
Titled Hoops, the exhibit proves that anywhere can be turned into a basketball practice space by simply mounting a backboard and a hoop onto an elevated vertical surface.
Bamberger's large-format photos present both private and public courts, but the most compelling in the series are ones that show the ad-hoc, run-down equipment in urban or remote settings.
At a primary school in Guatemala, the court is housed under a corrugated metal roof "Although the game's standard equipment is simple and well known, Bamberger's colour photographs show us that the permutations for a basketball court and backboard are nearly endless," said a statement from the museum.
"The design and construction of these spaces reveal as much about the communities in which they reside as they do about the game itself."
A hoop and backboard are attached to a huge concrete grain silo in Portland, Oregon
Unexpected locations that appear in Bamberger's photo set include a grain silo in Oregon, a dusty cactus-strewn park in Arizona, and an abandoned campsite in rural Tennessee.
Others are more recognisable, like domestic gara...