Ikeshima in silhouette from the ferry after sunset, apartment blocks along the ridge under an orange sky.
Ikeshima in silhouette from the ferry after sunset, apartment blocks along the ridge under an orange sky.

Ikeshima at Dusk

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

The island as a dark silhouette on the horizon. A pale line of apartment blocks along the ridge. Surface plant along the shore and the harbour wall reaching out at left. A sky fading from peach to orange with a few lit clouds. Deep blue choppy sea in the foreground.

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Ikeshima seen as a low dark silhouette across the Gotō Sea at dusk, a contrail crossing a peach-and-yellow sunset sky above.Ikeshima seen as a low dark silhouette across the Gotō Sea at dusk, a contrail crossing a peach-and-yellow sunset sky above.Ikeshima seen as a low dark silhouette across the Gotō Sea at dusk, a contrail crossing a peach-and-yellow sunset sky above.Ikeshima seen as a low dark silhouette across the Gotō Sea at dusk, a contrail crossing a peach-and-yellow sunset sky above.Ikeshima seen as a low dark silhouette across the Gotō Sea at dusk, a contrail crossing a peach-and-yellow sunset sky above.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Ikeshima at Dusk
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-055
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

Ikeshima from the deck of the evening ferry to Kōnoura, a few minutes after the sun has gone below the horizon. The whole island has flattened to a dark silhouette on the water, the apartment blocks of Ikeshima-machi showing as a pale line along the ridge and the surface plant of the mine strung out along the shore beneath them, with the harbour wall reaching out at the left. The sky above has gone from peach to a fading orange, a few clouds hold the last of the colour, and the sea in the foreground has turned deep blue and choppy in the ferry's wake. At its peak in 1970, about 7,770 people lived on this one small rock.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Ikeshima from the deck of the evening ferry to Kōnoura, a few minutes after the sun has gone below the horizon. The whole island has flattened to a dark silhouette on the water, the apartment blocks of Ikeshima-machi showing as a pale line along the ridge and the surface plant of the mine strung out along the shore beneath them, with the harbour wall reaching out at the left.

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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