Practicioners Office

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/9.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight filters through a grimy window into the practitioners office at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. A worn desk and chair remain, surrounded by forgotten medical supplies and the quiet stillness of abandonment. Dust covers every surface.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Practicioners Office
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-017
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 3s 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: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

02 LOCATION

Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A practitioner's office at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic, Yubari. A worn desk and chair sit at one wall of the room. Medical supplies and forgotten files are scattered across the desk and floor. Sunlight enters through a grimy window above the desk and falls across the surface. Dust covers every fixed object in the room.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic was a regional medical facility 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 in the decades that followed as the coal mines closed. The hospital was closed at some point in that contraction. The interior has stood largely undisturbed in the years since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A blue vinyl office chair sits between a steel trolley and a padded examination table. Medicine bottles and scattered paperwork crowd the trolley's top shelf. Floor tiles have cracked and lifted, breaking into pale fragments across the linoleum. Frosted glass filters weak light through a single window. A calendar still hangs on the wood-panelled wall. The air looks thick with fine dust.

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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