Toilet

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Small-format aqua tiles line the walls of a men's washroom at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. A porcelain urinal remains fixed to the wall. Paint curls from the steel door. A plastic bucket sits on a debris-covered floor.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Toilet
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-023
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2s 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 men's washroom at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. The walls are clad in small-format aqua-coloured ceramic tiles, the grout darkened with age. A porcelain urinal remains fixed to the wall. The steel door at the entrance to the washroom is painted in a faded institutional palette, the paint curling at the panel edges. A plastic bucket sits on the debris-covered floor.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic was a private orthopaedic clinic in Yubari, southern Hokkaido. The standard fit-out of the building's service spaces remains across the rooms. 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 was abandoned at some point in that contraction and has stood disused since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Small blue-green mosaic tiles line the walls of a narrow washroom. A porcelain urinal hangs at the far end beneath a single window, grey light filtering through. The ceiling has collapsed inward, dropping rubble and plaster across the entire floor. Paint on the metal door has curled away from the surface in thick ribbons, peeling downward in long strips. A plastic bucket sits upright among the debris. The sink basin holds broken tiles and rust.

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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