Staircase

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 15s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A grand staircase ascends through the heart of Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Each step reveals layers of peeling paint and the marks of time. Dust settled thickly, light streaming from above, highlights the elegant decay of this abandoned structure.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Staircase
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-021
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 15s 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 staircase rises through the heart of Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. The treads are timber-faced, scuffed at the centre where the working traffic passed across the years. The handrail is timber, fitted into a stringer that follows the line of the stair. The walls of the shaft are painted plaster, the paint worked back to bare plaster across patches of damp. Light enters from a window at the upper landing and falls across the treads.

The staircase is a repeated visual motif in the Lost Collective documentation of Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Kuwashima sits in Yubari, southern Hokkaido, a city that contracted from over 100,000 residents in the 1960s to below 10,000 today following the closure of the coal mines that supported its working economy. The hospital was abandoned at some point in that contraction. The building has stood disused since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Concrete steps climb a narrow stairwell toward a single bright opening. Every tread is buried under centimetres of powdered render and grit, the debris slumped into soft ridges like windblown sediment. Brick walls on either side are stripped back to rough coursework, damp-stained and dark. A rusted handrail runs along the left wall. The air looks thick, granular.

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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