Seven cats around a yellow apartment block in Ikeshima-machi, on the entry ledge, the wall and the pavement.
Seven cats around a yellow apartment block in Ikeshima-machi, on the entry ledge, the wall and the pavement.

Seven Cats

Provenance

Camera
Nikon F100
Film
Cinestill 800T · 35mm · ISO 800
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A pale yellow rendered apartment block in low evening light. Two pale cats on the entry ledge beside the electricity meters. A ginger cat on the wall below a blue balcony railing. A white cat on the doorstep. Two ginger cats on the pavement and one at the far end near the pipework. A bucket, a strip of matting and a parked car.

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Seven cats rest on a concrete path outside a cream-rendered apartment block at Ikeshima, with blue metal railings and exposed pipework across the facade.Seven cats rest on a concrete path outside a cream-rendered apartment block at Ikeshima, with blue metal railings and exposed pipework across the facade.Seven cats rest on a concrete path outside a cream-rendered apartment block at Ikeshima, with blue metal railings and exposed pipework across the facade.Seven cats rest on a concrete path outside a cream-rendered apartment block at Ikeshima, with blue metal railings and exposed pipework across the facade.Seven cats rest on a concrete path outside a cream-rendered apartment block at Ikeshima, with blue metal railings and exposed pipework across the facade.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Seven Cats
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-050
Process
Giclée
Captured
17 January 2026
Camera
Nikon F100
Film
Cinestill 800T
Format
35mm
Film ISO
800
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Location
Ikeshima, Nagasaki, Japan
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Ikeshima, Nagasaki, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Cats everywhere around an occupied apartment block in Ikeshima-machi, the low evening sun turning its render a warm yellow. Two pale cats sit up on the entry ledge beside the electricity meters, a ginger perches on the wall below the balcony rail, a white cat has settled on the doorstep, two more gingers lie on the pavement, and one watches from the pipework at the far end, seven or eight in a single frame. Blue balcony railings, a bucket, a parked car and a strip of matting on the ground say that people still live here. About 111 of them remained on the island in 2021, most of them retired mine workers and their families, and the cats live on their kindness.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Cats everywhere around an occupied apartment block in Ikeshima-machi, the low evening sun turning its render a warm yellow. Two pale cats sit up on the entry ledge beside the electricity meters, a ginger perches on the wall below the balcony rail, a white cat has settled on the doorstep, two more gingers lie on the pavement, and one watches from the pipework at the far end, seven or eight in a single frame.

Brett Patman

Ikeshima

The series

Ikeshima

1959 to 2001 · 54 photographs

Ikeshima Coal Mine operated beneath the seabed off Nagasaki from 1959 until 29 November 2001, making it the last new coal mine to open in Japan and the last large-scale underground colliery to close. At its 1970 peak the island held 7,770 residents on a 0.86 km² rock in the Gotō Sea, housed in company-built concrete towers above a mine that reached 650 m below sea level.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM IKESHIMA

53 other prints in this series

All prints
Dim office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, a white hard hat and a cup on two desks below a buckled venetian blind.
Hard Hat$100.00
View from an apartment window in Ikeshima-machi, utility pole and wires above silver grass with the Matsushima power station chimney across the sea.
Apartment Window$100.00
Window in the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, glass gone and a creeper hanging in over the sill above the sea.
Ocean Outlook$100.00
Pithead bath in the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, concrete troughs on a tiled floor with a vent fan on the far wall.
Pithead Bath$100.00
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