Mountain View
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/9.0 · 1/125 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Inside Family School Fureai, a forgotten classroom faces a mountain vista. Light filters through grimy windows onto empty desks, where children once studied beneath the gaze of the towering landscape.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Mountain View
- Series
- Family School Fureai
- Catalogue
- FSF-020
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 28 April 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/9.0
- Shutter
- 1/125 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
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Blue vinyl couches line the far wall beneath a bank of large windows. Through the glass, bare winter trees and forested hillside. The floor is destroyed. Tiles have buckled and shattered across the entire room, leaving fragments of ceramic and exposed concrete. A small metal stand sits overturned near the centre. Ceiling panels hang loose. The light is flat, grey, diffused.
Brett Patman
The series
Family School Fureai
Family School Fureai stands on a hillside at the northern end of Yubari in Hokkaido. The building opened on 1 April 1975 as Asahi Elementary School, a new three-storey reinforced-concrete structure built on the site of the demolished wooden Yubari Second Elementary (Daini). It consolidated three local schools - Daini, Fukuzumi and Teibi - that had lost most of their students as Yubari's coal industry shrank. By the early 1980s enrolment had collapsed; the school closed on 31 March 1983 after just eight years. The building stayed empty until Yubari City's tourism third-sector firm Yubari Kanko Kaihatsu, established October 1994, repurposed it as the Family School Fureai public dormitory. In June 2006 Yubari City announced its fiscal collapse; the city formally entered financial reconstruction status on 6 March 2007 and YKK ceased trading 31 March 2007 with ¥5.46 billion of debt. The building has sat empty since. Inside there is no graffiti - only kanji on the chalkboards. Deer and foxes use it now.
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