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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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
- 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 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
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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