Kurobeno Taiyo
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 20mm · f/8.0 · 1/640 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Sunlight warms the desolate streetscape of Yubari, Hokkaido. Weathered buildings with faded signs line the quiet road. This scene captures the city’s enduring silence and slow decay.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Kurobeno Taiyo
- Series
- Streetscapes of Yubari
- Catalogue
- SYU-018
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 28 April 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/640 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 20 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
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A large hand-painted billboard stands on weathered timber posts beside a hillside road. The panel advertises *Kurobe no Taiyō*, a 1968 film starring Mifune Toshirō and Ishihara Yūjirō. Painted figures in hardhats stare outward against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains. The colours have faded but hold. Bare branches press in from the left. A grey apartment block rises behind. Dead grass and rubble cover the ground beneath the sign.
Brett Patman
The series
Streetscapes of Yubari
Yūbari is a coal-mining city in central Hokkaido. Founded in 1943, its population peaked at around 120,000 in the 1960s and now sits at about 6,400. The colliery closed in the 1980s. The city's attempt to recover through tourism failed; in 2007 it became the first Japanese municipality to declare bankruptcy, owing 35.3 billion yen. These streetscapes were taken between the houses, shops, and schools the town no longer needs - most empty, some half-collapsed, some still in use by the people who stayed.
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