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01 Seika DormitoryKyoto2012
ISO 1001/3f/4.036mm
Series · 12 prints
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Seika Dormitory was an abandoned Tokyo dormitory documented in the haikyo community for the unusual volume of personal belongings left behind by its tenants. A fire at the building killed two residents and injured others, and the dormitory was abandoned in the years that followed. Mike Grist's January 2010 demolished-haikyo inventory lists Seika as gone, putting demolition at or before the start of the 2010s. The interior, while it stood, contained enough intact personal items to reconstruct each tenant's daily life. Specific dormitory operator, fire date, and Tokyo neighbourhood are not yet recorded in publicly available English-language sources.
Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.
Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.
Paper
Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.
Lead time
Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.
People talk about what it was like to work or stay in these places, who they knew, what they did, how great the Christmas parties were, that store man nobody liked, what all the different machines were, how they worked and what became of them.
Broadsheet
On the LC archive.
There's this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
I'm often contacted by people who used to frequent the places I photographed. They share stories that enter the collections as additions or corrections. Sometimes they send their own photos from the same viewpoints, taken decades earlier.
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
