Street in Ikeshima-machi between a row of concrete apartment blocks and trees, road clean and every window dark.
Street in Ikeshima-machi between a row of concrete apartment blocks and trees, road clean and every window dark.

Company Street

Provenance

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

A straight road with a white centre line between concrete apartment blocks on the left and a hedge of trees on the right. Every window in the nearest block dark, its render streaked grey. Shrubs grown up along the kerb. A utility pole leaning in at right with wires to the blocks. An ivy-covered block closing the view at the end.

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An empty asphalt road on Ikeshima runs between five abandoned reinforced-concrete apartment blocks with dry vines across their faces and a steep, heavily vegetated embankment, a single utility pole midway along the quiet street.An empty asphalt road on Ikeshima runs between five abandoned reinforced-concrete apartment blocks with dry vines across their faces and a steep, heavily vegetated embankment, a single utility pole midway along the quiet street.An empty asphalt road on Ikeshima runs between five abandoned reinforced-concrete apartment blocks with dry vines across their faces and a steep, heavily vegetated embankment, a single utility pole midway along the quiet street.An empty asphalt road on Ikeshima runs between five abandoned reinforced-concrete apartment blocks with dry vines across their faces and a steep, heavily vegetated embankment, a single utility pole midway along the quiet street.An empty asphalt road on Ikeshima runs between five abandoned reinforced-concrete apartment blocks with dry vines across their faces and a steep, heavily vegetated embankment, a single utility pole midway along the quiet street.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Company Street
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-003
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

A street in Ikeshima-machi, and for a moment it could be any street in a Japanese company town: a row of concrete apartment blocks on the left, a hedge of trees on the right, a utility pole, a kerb, a white line down the road. Then the details land. Every window in the nearest block is dark, the render has streaked to the colour of the sky, and shrubs have come up through the ground where cars once parked. The road itself is clean. That is not neglect running in reverse; the island's caretakers still come through with weed trimmers to keep the paths and the verges open, so the street stays walkable long after the flats along it have emptied. Rent on one of these company flats was about 400 yen a month in the mine's last years.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A street in Ikeshima-machi, and for a moment it could be any street in a Japanese company town: a row of concrete apartment blocks on the left, a hedge of trees on the right, a utility pole, a kerb, a white line down the road. Then the details land.

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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