Waiting Room

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Worn chairs sit in the waiting room of Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Dust covers every surface as light filters through grimy windows. Peeling paint reveals layers of time within this long-abandoned medical facility.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Waiting Room
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-024
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 5s 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

Worn chairs sit in a waiting room at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. The chairs are upholstered, the fabric stained and split, the frames painted in the institutional palette of the clinic's working years. Dust covers every surface. Light enters through grimy windows along the outer wall and falls across the chairs and the floor between them. The walls are painted plaster, the paint peeling in patches.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic was a private specialist orthopaedic clinic in Yubari, southern Hokkaido. Patients waited for appointments in rooms like this one 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 after the mines closed. The clinic was abandoned at some point in that contraction.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A vinyl bench sits in the centre of the ground-floor lobby, its chrome legs corroded brown. Ceiling panels hang at angles. Plaster has separated from the walls in broad sheets, exposing damp concrete beneath. A small "W.C." sign marks a doorway to the left. Behind the bench, a red Coca-Cola vending machine stands upright against the far wall, its branding still legible. Debris covers the floor. Light enters from a single window, flat and grey.

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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