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Triple Seven: A Playful Past and Future

Triple Seven: A Playful Past and Future

Authors

Luciana Trost

,

Ale Mottesi

Date

December 18, 2025

Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri

Anne Lass presents her latest book of photographs set in Berlin, marked by a vintage futuristic sensibility and focused on small gambling halls that are now nearly abandoned.

Anne Lass presents her latest book of photographs set in Berlin, marked by a vintage futuristic sensibility and focused on small gambling halls that are now nearly abandoned.

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Gallery — Triple Seven: 2023 (Photographs from the book. Copyright © Anne Lass. Published by Disko Bay, 2023)

To document —through photographs—, spaces of play, small gambling halls in Berlin that in some cases seem frozen in the past while simultaneously evoking a future yet to come. This is the spirit of Triple Seven, the new book by Danish German photographer Anne Lass.The artist’s intention has been to freeze these playful spaces in time, small gambling venues now on the verge of extinction due to the advance of new regulations and emerging technologies. These places take us back to sites of communion, to a topology of encounters with the Other that today occurs, to a much greater extent, within the virtual realm.

La pepino series II
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Gallery — Triple Seven: 2023 (Photographs from the book. Copyright © Anne Lass. Published by Disko Bay, 2023)

Undoubtedly, in Triple Seven—alluding to the luck associated with three sevens on slot machines—Anne Lass commits to the predominance of vibrant colors and the retro aesthetics of these spaces. Through her lens, they convey a subtle sense of nostalgia, an evocation of the 1980s and, at the same time, a projection toward the future. Fluorescent colors stand out—greens, reds, and violets—alongside soft textures such as velvet and fabric, and glossy surfaces like leather, plastics, and mirrors. Operating as a link between these places and their histories are the portraits of the employees who still inhabit them, embodying the living memory of a bygone era.

Anne Lass commits to the predominance of vibrant colors and the retro aesthetics of these spaces.

Anne Lass commits to the predominance of vibrant colors and the retro aesthetics of these spaces.

Anne Lass commits to the predominance of vibrant colors and the retro aesthetics of these spaces.

La pepino series II
La pepino series II
La pepino series II
La pepino series II

Gallery — Triple Seven: 2023 (Photographs from the book. Copyright © Anne Lass. Published by Disko Bay, 2023)

Gallery — Triple Seven: 2023 (Photographs from the book. Copyright © Anne Lass. Published by Disko Bay, 2023)

Photographs freeze in time those moments we wish to preserve in memory. In this selection of images, Anne Lass has skillfully chosen contemporary photographs of a nostalgic past that promise to endure in the memory of a playful future still to come.

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TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Original title

Triple Seven

publisher

Disko Bay

Size

28 cm × 27 cm

No. of pages

108 pages

Format

Full colour, faux leather bound hardback (tip-in, embossed text)

Release date

November 2023

Language

German and English

ISBN

978-87-973526-6-3

CREDITS

Graphic design

Louis Montes

Photography

Anne Lass