Control room in the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, twelve small CRT screens in a grey console with two office chairs.
Control room in the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, twelve small CRT screens in a grey console with two office chairs.

Monitors and Consoles

Provenance

Camera
Nikon F100
Film
Fujifilm Velvia 50 · 35mm · ISO 50
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Twelve small CRT screens in a grey console, nine set into its face and three on top. Beige computer terminals and a printer on the desk. Two black office chairs turned toward the console. Binders labelled 検針明細書 on the right-hand cabinet. Strip lights and an exposed air duct overhead. Sunlight through a tall window at left.

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A bank of twelve dark CRT monitors set into and stacked above a central control console at the Ikeshima Coal Mine, with monthly report binders on a shelf to the right and daylight entering through a tall window at left.A bank of twelve dark CRT monitors set into and stacked above a central control console at the Ikeshima Coal Mine, with monthly report binders on a shelf to the right and daylight entering through a tall window at left.A bank of twelve dark CRT monitors set into and stacked above a central control console at the Ikeshima Coal Mine, with monthly report binders on a shelf to the right and daylight entering through a tall window at left.A bank of twelve dark CRT monitors set into and stacked above a central control console at the Ikeshima Coal Mine, with monthly report binders on a shelf to the right and daylight entering through a tall window at left.A bank of twelve dark CRT monitors set into and stacked above a central control console at the Ikeshima Coal Mine, with monthly report binders on a shelf to the right and daylight entering through a tall window at left.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Monitors and Consoles
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-042
Process
Giclée
Captured
17 January 2026
Camera
Nikon F100
Film
Fujifilm Velvia 50
Format
35mm
Film ISO
50
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

The control room of the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, seen from beside the desk. Twelve small CRT screens sit dark in the grey console, nine set into its face and three stacked on top, with beige terminals and a printer crowding the desk below them. Two black office chairs are turned toward the console as if the shift had just stepped out. Binders on the cabinet at right are labelled 検針明細書, the meter-reading statements, under the name 三井松島リソーシス（株）, and sunlight comes in through the tall window on the left beneath strip lights and an exposed air duct. The island generated its own power from a coal-fired station commissioned in 1967, so the current those readings recorded was made a few hundred metres away.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The control room of the No. 2 Shaft office at Ikeshima Coal Mine, seen from beside the desk. Twelve small CRT screens sit dark in the grey console, nine set into its face and three stacked on top, with beige terminals and a printer crowding the desk below them.

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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