Doctors Dinner

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 70mm · f/3.5 · 1/50 · ISO 1600
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A long dining table stands set for a meal inside Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Empty chairs surround it, covered in dust. Medical charts and forgotten instruments suggest the former presence of doctors, now long departed.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Doctors Dinner
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-007
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter: 1/50 s
ISO: 1600
Focal length: 70 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A long dining table stands inside Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic, set as if for a meal. Chairs are arranged around the table, the seats dust-covered. Plates, glasses, and utensils have been placed on the table; the arrangement is more recent than the abandonment of the building. The room around the table is otherwise empty, the walls plain plaster, the floor scuffed and dust-covered.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic is in Yubari, southern Hokkaido. The city's population peaked at over 100,000 in the 1960s during the coal mining boom and fell below 10,000 after the mines closed. The clinic was closed at some point in that contraction. Successive visitors have entered the building during the abandoned years and arranged some of the interior fittings; the dining-table setting is one of those interventions, not a record of the working clinic.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A colour photograph lies on stained tile flooring. Three men in dark suits sit around a crowded dinner table. Plates of food, beer bottles, glasses. One man holds a cigarette. Mould speckles the print surface in grey and black clusters. The edges are soft with moisture damage. A yellow paper scrap, printed with Japanese text, overlaps the bottom right corner. Grit and small debris sit across the tiles.

Brett Patman

The series

Kuwashima Hospital

2016 · 26 photographs

Kuwashima Hospital sits in Yubari, on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. The town's population peaked above one hundred thousand in the 1960s and has since fallen below seven thousand. The hospital is abandoned.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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