Boiler house and chimney of the Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station in silhouette against a bright evening sky.
Boiler house and chimney of the Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station in silhouette against a bright evening sky.

Boiler House

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

A boiler house in silhouette, ducts, walkways, ladders and rooftop steel against a bright sky. A white chimney at right. A long white building with rows of windows across the foreground. A wooded hill at left with the sun behind it. Halation softening the edges where sky meets structure. Bare trees at lower right.

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The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima Coal Mine silhouetted against a hazy sunset sky, with external pipework, steel walkways and a forested hillside visible in the frame.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima Coal Mine silhouetted against a hazy sunset sky, with external pipework, steel walkways and a forested hillside visible in the frame.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima Coal Mine silhouetted against a hazy sunset sky, with external pipework, steel walkways and a forested hillside visible in the frame.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima Coal Mine silhouetted against a hazy sunset sky, with external pipework, steel walkways and a forested hillside visible in the frame.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima Coal Mine silhouetted against a hazy sunset sky, with external pipework, steel walkways and a forested hillside visible in the frame.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Boiler House
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-040
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

The Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station at the end of the day, its boiler house standing as a dark mass of ducts, walkways, ladders and rooftop steel against a bright sky, with the chimney rising white at the right and the long turbine hall running across the foreground below. The sun has dropped behind the wooded hill on the left, and where the sky meets the dark edges of the trees and the plant the light bleeds over into a soft halation, a glow that softens every hard line of the structure. Bare winter trees crowd the lower right. From 1967 this station burned the mine's own coal to power the island, with the desalination plant commissioned alongside it supplying the island's fresh water.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station at the end of the day, its boiler house standing as a dark mass of ducts, walkways, ladders and rooftop steel against a bright sky, with the chimney rising white at the right and the long turbine hall running across the foreground below. The sun has dropped behind the wooded hill on the left, and where the sky meets the dark edges of the trees and the plant the light bleeds over into a soft halation, a glow that softens every hard line of the structure.

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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