Two concrete A-frames of the stockyard conveyor at Ikeshima Coal Mine, weathered grey with the sea and hills behind.
Two concrete A-frames of the stockyard conveyor at Ikeshima Coal Mine, weathered grey with the sea and hills behind.

Conveyor Frames

Provenance

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

Two concrete A-frame trestles in line, weathered grey with dark streaks down the legs. Lines of bolt heads down each leg and a cross-member tying each pair. A twisted stub of steel on top of the taller frame. Dry grass across the yard and a single green shrub at the base. The sea and the hills of the mainland between the frames.

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In situ

Two concrete A-frame structures with a broken metal arm at the apex of the taller frame, standing on a coastal outcrop at Ikeshima above blue ocean.Two concrete A-frame structures with a broken metal arm at the apex of the taller frame, standing on a coastal outcrop at Ikeshima above blue ocean.Two concrete A-frame structures with a broken metal arm at the apex of the taller frame, standing on a coastal outcrop at Ikeshima above blue ocean.Two concrete A-frame structures with a broken metal arm at the apex of the taller frame, standing on a coastal outcrop at Ikeshima above blue ocean.Two concrete A-frame structures with a broken metal arm at the apex of the taller frame, standing on a coastal outcrop at Ikeshima above blue ocean.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Conveyor Frames
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-007
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

Two concrete A-frames stand in line across the old coal stockyard at Ikeshima Coal Mine, weathered grey and streaked dark down their legs, with a twisted stub of steel still bolted to the top of the taller one. Bolt heads run down each leg where the conveyor gantry was fixed to them, a cross-member ties each pair, and the sea and the hills of the mainland fill the gap between. Dry grass has taken the yard and a single green shrub grows at their feet. The conveyor they carried ran from the stockpile out to the jib loader on the harbour wall, which put coal straight into ships at 500 tonnes an hour.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two concrete A-frames stand in line across the old coal stockyard at Ikeshima Coal Mine, weathered grey and streaked dark down their legs, with a twisted stub of steel still bolted to the top of the taller one. Bolt heads run down each leg where the conveyor gantry was fixed to them, a cross-member ties each pair, and the sea and the hills of the mainland fill the gap between.

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

Print sizes

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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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