Xray Machine

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 15s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

An overhead X-ray unit hangs from a ceiling-mounted arm above a collapsed examination table. A blue lead apron drapes across the surface. Plaster debris covers the floor. Rust stains the radiator beneath a single milky window.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Xray Machine
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-026
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 15s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

An overhead X-ray unit hangs from a ceiling-mounted arm above a collapsed examination table at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. A blue lead apron drapes across the table surface. Plaster debris covers the floor of the room. Rust streaks the radiator beneath a single milky window on the outer wall. The X-ray unit is intact in its mounting; the table below has given way under the load of fallen ceiling material.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic was a regional medical facility in Yubari, southern Hokkaido. The imaging and treatment equipment remains in the building, set where it was last used. Yubari's population peaked at over 100,000 in the 1960s during the coal mining boom and fell below 10,000 in the decades that followed as the coal mines closed. The hospital was abandoned at some point in that contraction and has stood disused since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A blue lead apron lies across the X-ray examination table, still draped as though between patients. The overhead tube head hangs from its ceiling mount at an angle. Mould blackens the walls from floor to ceiling. Rust bleeds down the radiator beneath a boarded window where a thin line of daylight cuts through. Plaster and debris cover the floor, burying the metal tracks the machine table once rolled along. The air in here is damp. Heavy.

Brett Patman

The series

Kuwashima Hospital

2016 · 26 photographs

Kuwashima Hospital sits in Yubari, on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. The town's population peaked above one hundred thousand in the 1960s and has since fallen below seven thousand. The hospital is abandoned.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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