Corner office in the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, collapsed ceiling and debris with the sea in every window.
Corner office in the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, collapsed ceiling and debris with the sea in every window.

Corner Office

Provenance

Camera
Nikon F100
Film
Kodak Portra 400 · 35mm · ISO 400
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Windows on two walls with open sea in every pane. Ceiling panels down in sections, the grid and wiring exposed. Broken panels, twisted frames and a collapsed partition across the floor. A balcony rail past the left-hand glazing, the doors to it open. Bright daylight throughout.

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In situ

A collapsed ceiling in a disused office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, with a large rectangular opening exposing the cavity above, loose metal grid, plaster debris on the floor, a broken window pane, and a white-topped table near windows that open toward the sea.A collapsed ceiling in a disused office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, with a large rectangular opening exposing the cavity above, loose metal grid, plaster debris on the floor, a broken window pane, and a white-topped table near windows that open toward the sea.A collapsed ceiling in a disused office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, with a large rectangular opening exposing the cavity above, loose metal grid, plaster debris on the floor, a broken window pane, and a white-topped table near windows that open toward the sea.A collapsed ceiling in a disused office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, with a large rectangular opening exposing the cavity above, loose metal grid, plaster debris on the floor, a broken window pane, and a white-topped table near windows that open toward the sea.A collapsed ceiling in a disused office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, with a large rectangular opening exposing the cavity above, loose metal grid, plaster debris on the floor, a broken window pane, and a white-topped table near windows that open toward the sea.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Corner Office
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-022
Process
Giclée
Captured
17 January 2026
Camera
Nikon F100
Film
Kodak Portra 400
Format
35mm
Film ISO
400
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

A corner office on an upper floor of the No. 2 Shaft office building at Ikeshima Coal Mine, glazed on two sides so that the sea fills every window. The ceiling has come down in sections, leaving the grid and its wiring exposed, and the floor is buried in broken panels, twisted frames and a collapsed partition lying on its side. A balcony rail runs past the left-hand glazing, and the doors to it stand open. Whoever had this desk looked out over water, and every seam the mine worked lay somewhere under it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A corner office on an upper floor of the No. 2 Shaft office building at Ikeshima Coal Mine, glazed on two sides so that the sea fills every window. The ceiling has come down in sections, leaving the grid and its wiring exposed, and the floor is buried in broken panels, twisted frames and a collapsed partition lying on its side.

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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