Koepe Winder
Provenance
- Camera
- Nikon F100
- Film
- Kodak Portra 400 · 35mm · ISO 400
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A large pale blue drive pulley behind yellow safety rails at right, with bearing housing and control gear alongside. A chain block hanging from the roof steel above a rusted enclosure at left. A small electric motor on a steel-plate floor. Plastic sheeting draped over a machine beyond the rails. Windows in corrugated walls lighting the hall from behind.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Koepe Winder
- Series
- Ikeshima
- Catalogue
- IKE-031
- 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
Ikeshima, Nagasaki, Japan
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About this print
Inside the No. 2 shaft winder house at Ikeshima Coal Mine, the winder itself: the pale blue drive pulley of the 600 kW Koepe winder fills the right of the hall, 6 m across and fenced off behind yellow safety rails, with its bearing housing and control gear bolted alongside. A chain block hangs from the roof steel above a rusted enclosure on the left, a small electric motor sits on the steel-plate floor between the two, and plastic sheeting lies draped over a machine beyond the rails.
Brett Patman
The series
Ikeshima
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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