Locker Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/4 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Within Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic, a locker room stands with rows of metal cupboards. Their doors hang open, revealing empty compartments where staff once stored belongings. Dust lies thick on every surface, marking the hospital's long closure.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Locker Room
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-015
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/4 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 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 locker room inside Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Rows of metal cupboards line two walls, the doors hanging open across most of the run. The compartments inside are empty, the surfaces dust-covered. The floor in front of the lockers is scuffed where the staff stood at shift change. The room is plain plaster walls and concrete floor, with the lockers the only fixed fittings.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic was a private specialist orthopaedic clinic in Yubari, southern Hokkaido. The locker room served the clinic staff across the working life of the building. Yubari's population peaked at over 100,000 in the 1960s during the coal mining boom and fell below 10,000 in the decades that followed. The clinic closed at some point in that contraction and has stood disused since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel lockers line the left wall, doors wrenched open or hanging at angles. Rust bleeds from their hinges. The vinyl floor tiles have buckled and split, exposing dark substrate underneath. A cast-iron radiator sits beneath frosted windows, its cream paint blistered to brown. Plaster curls from the walls in long strips. On one locker door, a Milk Land Hokkaido sticker holds its colour. Green and white against grey metal.

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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