Random Harvest
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/9.0 · 1/500 · ISO 400
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Provenance
Overgrown weeds reclaim a desolate street in Yubari, Hokkaido. Weathered buildings, once busy, now stand empty. This streetscape reflects the quiet decline of a former coal mining centre in Japan.
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Limited edition
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Random Harvest
- Series
- Streetscapes of Yubari
- Catalogue
- SYU-028
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 28 April 2016
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
Where this was photographed
Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
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From the field notes
A hand-painted film billboard sits bolted to the grey cladding of a shuttered building. The Japanese title reads 心の旅路, the localised name for MGM's 1942 film *Random Harvest*, starring Greer Garson and Ronald Colman. Their faces are rendered in soft, careful brushstrokes against a pale green background. Below the sign, metal siding runs clean and featureless. Weeds push through cracked asphalt at the base.
— 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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