Entrance hospital Wollongong at New South Wales

Wollongong at New South Wales

while grass pushes through faded line markings and slowly reclaims the former playing surface

still arranged as though a meal might yet be served

processing condensed milk

A tatami room in the company housing of the Ogurawa settlement

Entrance hospital Wollongong at New South WalesSunlight breaks through dense mountain canopy onto a concrete entrance structure within the Ogurawa settlement, the residential community that served Chichibu Mine for decades. Foliage presses in from all sides, reclaiming the path. The Ogurawa settlement was uninhabited by September 2006, when the last permanent resident left. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.