Kuwashima Hospital

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 20mm · f/9.0 · 1/160 · ISO 400
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Peeling red paint strips back across the concrete facade of Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic in Yubari, exposing pale grey layers beneath. A sign to the right still reads 診療時間, consultation hours, beside a row of small square windows and a broken first-floor pane. Power lines cross above the roofline.

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In situ

Kuwashima Hospital at Kuwashima Hospital, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Kuwashima Hospital at Kuwashima Hospital, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Kuwashima Hospital at Kuwashima Hospital, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Kuwashima Hospital
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-013
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 1/160 s
ISO: 400
Focal length: 20 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Sunlight enters through broken windows into one of the corridors at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic, Yubari. The light falls across the floor in panels between the window positions. Peeling paint shows the layers of institutional colours applied across the working life of the building. Dust has settled on the furniture and floors of the rooms opening off the corridor.

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 collapsed below 10,000 over the following decades as successive mines closed and the working population left. It was a private specialist orthopaedic clinic, not a general hospital, with surgical and post-surgical rehabilitation rooms. It was abandoned at some point in that contraction; the exact closure year is not on the public record.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A three-storey concrete building stands facing the road. Dark brown render peels away in large irregular sheets, exposing pale grey substrate beneath. Glass doors at ground level sit behind a narrow brick-faced ledge. Curtains hang limp in broken windows. A metal awning sags above the entrance. Power lines cut across a flat white sky. Dead brush pushes through cracks at the base. To the left, a corrugated structure leans and buckles.

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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