Yu walking up a road in Ikeshima-machi under a concrete overpass, a climber on the retaining wall and leaves on the asphalt.
Yu walking up a road in Ikeshima-machi under a concrete overpass, a climber on the retaining wall and leaves on the asphalt.

Yu Under the Overpass

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

A man with a backpack walking away up a road, under the edge of a concrete overpass. A climber on the retaining wall beside him. Silver grass over the kerb. Fallen leaves on the asphalt and a white diamond road marking in the foreground. A blue pedestrian sign and the green end of an apartment block ahead in the glare.

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A figure walks away down a road at Ikeshima toward pale light under a concrete overpass, with ivy covering the retaining wall and a blue pedestrian sign still standing at the verge.A figure walks away down a road at Ikeshima toward pale light under a concrete overpass, with ivy covering the retaining wall and a blue pedestrian sign still standing at the verge.A figure walks away down a road at Ikeshima toward pale light under a concrete overpass, with ivy covering the retaining wall and a blue pedestrian sign still standing at the verge.A figure walks away down a road at Ikeshima toward pale light under a concrete overpass, with ivy covering the retaining wall and a blue pedestrian sign still standing at the verge.A figure walks away down a road at Ikeshima toward pale light under a concrete overpass, with ivy covering the retaining wall and a blue pedestrian sign still standing at the verge.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Yu Under the Overpass
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-002
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

Yu walks up the road in Ikeshima-machi, backpack on, passing out of the shade of a concrete overpass into the hazy light beyond. A climber has taken the retaining wall beside him, silver grass leans over the kerb, and fallen leaves are scattered across the asphalt where a white diamond road marking still shows in the foreground. Ahead, a blue pedestrian sign and the green end of an apartment block stand in the glare. He is the only person on the road, and the road was built for thousands.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Yu walks up the road in Ikeshima-machi, backpack on, passing out of the shade of a concrete overpass into the hazy light beyond. A climber has taken the retaining wall beside him, silver grass leans over the kerb, and fallen leaves are scattered across the asphalt where a white diamond road marking still shows in the foreground.

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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