Zebra crossing and pedestrian signs on a road in Ikeshima-machi, rusted No. 1 shaft headframe above the trees at right.
Zebra crossing and pedestrian signs on a road in Ikeshima-machi, rusted No. 1 shaft headframe above the trees at right.

Zebra Crossing

Provenance

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

A zebra crossing in fresh white paint across a road. Blue pedestrian signs on both verges. A small white building with a map board on its wall at the corner. Trees and silver grass behind. A rusted lattice headframe with two head sheaves above the trees at right. Wind turbines on a distant ridge. Overhead wires across the sky.

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In situ

White crosswalk bars lead across asphalt toward a tunnel portal cut into a tree-covered hillside at Ikeshima, with a small guard booth and rusted lattice tower visible alongside the road.White crosswalk bars lead across asphalt toward a tunnel portal cut into a tree-covered hillside at Ikeshima, with a small guard booth and rusted lattice tower visible alongside the road.White crosswalk bars lead across asphalt toward a tunnel portal cut into a tree-covered hillside at Ikeshima, with a small guard booth and rusted lattice tower visible alongside the road.White crosswalk bars lead across asphalt toward a tunnel portal cut into a tree-covered hillside at Ikeshima, with a small guard booth and rusted lattice tower visible alongside the road.White crosswalk bars lead across asphalt toward a tunnel portal cut into a tree-covered hillside at Ikeshima, with a small guard booth and rusted lattice tower visible alongside the road.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Zebra Crossing
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-048
Process
Giclée
Captured
18 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

Three ages of power in one frame from a road in Ikeshima-machi. In the foreground, the town: a zebra crossing painted crisp and white, blue pedestrian signs on both verges, a corner building with a map board on its wall, all the furniture of a place laid out for thousands of people walking to and from a shift. Above the trees to the right, the mine: the No. 1 shaft headframe, rusted through to orange, its two head sheaves still hanging where the ropes once ran down to the workings. And on the ridge across the water, the present: wind turbines turning on the mainland, making electricity out of the weather while the island that once burned its own coal to keep the lights on sits quiet beneath them. The crossing still waits for someone to use it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three ages of power in one frame from a road in Ikeshima-machi. In the foreground, the town: a zebra crossing painted crisp and white, blue pedestrian signs on both verges, a corner building with a map board on its wall, all the furniture of a place laid out for thousands of people walking to and from a shift.

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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