Yubari Backstreet

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
70.0-200.0 mm f/4.0
Settings
105mm · f/4.0 · 1/800 · ISO 320
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A narrow road runs between a two-storey timber-clad building and a rendered shopfront in Yubari. Grass pushes through the kerb edge. Utility poles and a steep hillside fill the background.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Yubari Backstreet
Series
Streetscapes of Yubari
Catalogue
SYU-050
Process
Giclée
Captured
28 April 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
70.0-200.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture
f/4.0
Shutter
1/800 s
ISO
320
Focal length
105 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan

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04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow concrete lane curves between buildings clad in dark timber and corrugated iron. To the right, a two-storey house sits close to the road. Teal metal awning over the entrance. Plaster cracking at the corners. A gas metre bolted to the white lower wall. Power lines cross overhead, strung between leaning poles. Behind, the hillside rises steeply, terraced with retaining walls and brown winter grass. No people. No cars. Green moss creeps along the gutters.

Brett Patman

Streetscapes of Yubari

The series

Streetscapes of Yubari

2018 · 54 photographs

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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05 SIZE GUIDE

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