Road
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/9.0 · 1/160 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Dry susuki grass spills across the cracked asphalt road at Nichitsu Mining Village. Timber and corrugated buildings line the right. Power lines cross above. Dense mountain forest closes in on three sides.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Road
- Series
- Nichitsu Mining Village
- Catalogue
- NMV-029
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 4 May 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/9.0
- Shutter
- 1/160 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Chichibu, Saitama, Japan
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Chichibu, Saitama, Japan
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Dried susuki grass spills across a narrow road, the stalks pale and brittle against cracked asphalt. Two low buildings sit tight to the hillside, their corrugated metal cladding darkened with age. Power lines still hang between wooden poles. Behind everything, steep forested mountains press in close, dense and green under hard afternoon light. Weeds split the road surface. No cars. No people.
Brett Patman
The series
Nichitsu Mining Village
Nichitsu Mining Village - formally Ogura-sawa settlement - sits in the mountains above Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture. The mine was first worked around 1600 by the Kai Takeda clan, Takeda Shingen's house, who panned gold and placer gold from its streams. In 1765 the Edo-period polymath Hiraga Gennai entered the valley to mine gold; his residence, Gennai-kyo, survives as a Chichibu City historic site. Yanase Trading bought the mine in 1910 and added iron-ore extraction. Nichitsu Mining Development took over in 1937 and reorganised as Nichitsu Mining Industry in 1950. By the 1960s the mine produced 500,000 tonnes a year of zinc, magnetite and over 140 mineral species - the most varied mine in Japan - supporting a town of 2,000 to 2,400 people with two schools, a hospital, a fire department, a cinema and a post office. Metal mining stopped in 1978; quartz sand began in 1969; crystalline limestone carried on until 30 September 2022, when Nitchitsu Co. closed the operation entirely.
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