Power Station Road

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

A road curving toward a coal-fired power station, white guardrail on the near side. A pale chimney against a wooded hill. The boiler house as a dark mass of ducts and platforms above a long white turbine hall. A row of utility poles along the verge. Outbuildings among trees at left with silver grass around them. Overcast daylight.

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The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima, with an asphalt road curving past a small white-railed bridge in the foreground and a steep, densely vegetated hillside behind.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima, with an asphalt road curving past a small white-railed bridge in the foreground and a steep, densely vegetated hillside behind.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima, with an asphalt road curving past a small white-railed bridge in the foreground and a steep, densely vegetated hillside behind.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima, with an asphalt road curving past a small white-railed bridge in the foreground and a steep, densely vegetated hillside behind.The chimney and boiler house of the coal-fired power station at Ikeshima, with an asphalt road curving past a small white-railed bridge in the foreground and a steep, densely vegetated hillside behind.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Power Station Road
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-001
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

The road into the Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station, curving past a white guardrail toward the plant with its chimney standing pale against the wooded hill behind. The boiler house rises as a dark tangle of ducts and platforms above the long white turbine hall, a row of utility poles carries the lines along the verge, and to the left the station's outbuildings sit back among the trees with silver grass growing up around them. Everything the island ran on came from this end of the road: from 1967 the station burned the mine's own coal for the pit, the winders and the flats, and the desalination plant beside it turned the sea into the island's only fresh water.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The road into the Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station, curving past a white guardrail toward the plant with its chimney standing pale against the wooded hill behind. The boiler house rises as a dark tangle of ducts and platforms above the long white turbine hall, a row of utility poles carries the lines along the verge, and to the left the station's outbuildings sit back among the trees with silver grass growing up around 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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