View from an apartment window in Ikeshima-machi, utility pole and wires above silver grass with the Matsushima power station chimney across the sea.
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

Provenance

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

A dark window mullion splitting the frame, a faint reflection of the room in the glass at left. A utility pole with a tangle of wires against the sky. A low concrete structure in a field of dry silver grass. Open sea beyond. A white chimney on the far shore against hills. The corner of the next block at the right.

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View through a dark window frame at Ikeshima showing two utility poles with tangled wires against pale sky, dry grass, a concrete structure, and a white lighthouse on a distant landmass across open water.View through a dark window frame at Ikeshima showing two utility poles with tangled wires against pale sky, dry grass, a concrete structure, and a white lighthouse on a distant landmass across open water.View through a dark window frame at Ikeshima showing two utility poles with tangled wires against pale sky, dry grass, a concrete structure, and a white lighthouse on a distant landmass across open water.View through a dark window frame at Ikeshima showing two utility poles with tangled wires against pale sky, dry grass, a concrete structure, and a white lighthouse on a distant landmass across open water.View through a dark window frame at Ikeshima showing two utility poles with tangled wires against pale sky, dry grass, a concrete structure, and a white lighthouse on a distant landmass across open water.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Apartment Window
Series
Ikeshima
Catalogue
IKE-005
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 view from a window in one of the company apartment blocks of Ikeshima-machi, the dark mullion of the frame splitting the picture and the glass on the left throwing back a faint reflection of the room. Outside, a utility pole carries a tangle of wires across the sky, a low concrete structure sits in a field of dry silver grass, and beyond it the sea runs out to Matsushima, where the white chimney of the J-POWER Matsushima Power Station stands against the hills. The corner of the next block shows at the right. From 1981 that station burned the coal raised on this island, so whoever lived here could look out at where their work ended up.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The view from a window in one of the company apartment blocks of Ikeshima-machi, the dark mullion of the frame splitting the picture and the glass on the left throwing back a faint reflection of the room. Outside, a utility pole carries a tangle of wires across the sky, a low concrete structure sits in a field of dry silver grass, and beyond it the sea runs out to Matsushima, where the white chimney of the J-POWER Matsushima Power Station stands against the hills.

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
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
Ikeshima Coal-Fired Power Station, white chimney above the boiler house and turbine hall seen across silver grass.
Power Station$100.00
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