Rehabilitation Equipment

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rehabilitation tools stand silent in Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. A wheelchair, crutches, and exercise machines gather dust. Their purpose is long forgotten. They remain relics of past care, left to decay.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Rehabilitation Equipment
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-019
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/8 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

Rehabilitation equipment at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. A wheelchair, crutches, and exercise machines stand together in one of the rooms, the equipment covered in dust and stained where damp has worked across the metal surfaces. The room is plain plaster walls and concrete floor, with the equipment grouped in the centre as if the room was used as a working rehabilitation space.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic was a private specialist orthopaedic clinic in Yubari, southern Hokkaido, with orthopaedic and post-surgical rehabilitation among its services. The persistence of the rehabilitation equipment in the building reflects that function. Yubari'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 abandoned at some point in that contraction.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A modulation control panel lines the left wall, its frequency dials and toggle switches still set to operating positions. Beside it, a hydrotherapy bath stretches toward the window, its white fibreglass shell grey with grime. A privacy curtain hangs collapsed from its rail. The vinyl floor is black-green with mould. Ceiling tiles sag where moisture has worked through from above. Through the window, the blue-roofed peak of a neighbouring building sits against bare winter hills.

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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