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Long-form pieces about abandoned buildings. Power stations, hotels, hospitals, factories. Photographs, historical research, and what's left when the people leave. Sent when there's something worth sending.

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Ikeshima from the air, the surface plant of Ikeshima Coal Mine and the apartment blocks of Ikeshima-machi with the sea beyond.
Field note · Sep 2026

Ikeshima: You can go, but you can't come back

One day on Ikeshima, the last large-scale coal mine in Japan, told from the ticket queue at Kōnoura...Read →
Kinugawa Kan on the cliff above the Kinugawa River gorge, vintage photograph of the multi-wing complex at full height
Field note · May 2026

Kinugawa Kan: A Century of Change in Kinugawa Onsen

Kinugawa Kan opened on 31 December 1942 on the Kinugawa River gorge. The first major ryokan in Kinugawa...Read →
A C.A. Parsons and Company engineering drawing of the Wangi Power Station turbine, general arrangement and end elevations.
Field note · May 2026

Wangi Power Station: The Years Gone By

Eleven storeys of brick on the western shore of Lake Macquarie, built by 1,000 men and run for...Read →

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