Surgery

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/9.0 · 1/15 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside the former Nichitsu Mining Village, surgical instruments lie scattered in a decaying operating theatre. Dust covers the examination table, where medical procedures once took place for the isolated community.

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Surgery at Nichitsu Mining Village, a decaying doctors surgery.Surgery at Nichitsu Mining Village, a decaying doctors surgery.Surgery at Nichitsu Mining Village, a decaying doctors surgery.Surgery at Nichitsu Mining Village, a decaying doctors surgery.Surgery at Nichitsu Mining Village, a decaying doctors surgery.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Surgery
Series
Graffiti & Urban Decay
Catalogue
GUD-034
Process
Giclée
Captured
4 May 2016
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/9.0
Shutter
1/15 s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Chichibu, Saitama, Japan
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Chichibu, Saitama, Japan

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Surgery at Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. Photographed 2016. Available unframed, framed, or face-mounted on metallic gloss.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A decaying doctors surgery.

Brett Patman

Graffiti & Urban Decay

The series

Graffiti & Urban Decay

54 photographs

Buildings don't stay empty. Once the owners leave, somebody else arrives. Walls that were blank become a record of who came through and when. Graffiti isn't vandalism on these surfaces , it's the only remaining evidence that anyone cared enough to be here.Urban spaces mid-collapse. The gap between what a building was built for and what it became.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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