Weights

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A chrome-framed traction apparatus stands at the centre of an abandoned treatment room at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Analogue monitoring equipment lines the left wall. Mould spreads across the ceiling. The floor is stained concrete.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Weights
Series: Kuwashima Hospital
Catalogue: KHO-025
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 May 2016
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/2 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 chrome-framed traction apparatus stands at the centre of one of the treatment rooms at Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic. Analogue monitoring equipment lines the wall to the left. Mould has spread across the ceiling above the equipment. The floor is stained concrete. The traction frame is intact in its working position; the connecting cables and weights have settled at the base of the frame.

Kuwashima Orthopaedic Clinic provided orthopaedic and post-surgical rehabilitation services in Yubari, southern Hokkaido. The traction apparatus and the monitoring equipment around it served that function 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 in the decades that followed as the mines closed. The clinic was abandoned at some point in that contraction.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A rehabilitation frame stands at the centre of the room, its green-painted castors rusted to the wet floor. Chrome uprights hold a grid of crossbars where pulleys and weight stacks once guided limb exercises. To the left, a control console with analogue dials and toggle switches sits against a wall streaked brown with water damage. Ceiling tiles sag and blacken with mould. Peeling wallpaper curls away in sheets. Light enters flat through a far window, catching the slick surface of the floor.

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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