Living Quarters Alley writing built by hand from split

built by hand from split eucalypt and left standing when the land could no longer carry a family

A metal filing cabinet stands inside the abandoned Northcote Shoe Factory

Boarded Public Housing at Yubari

Sunlight cuts through the windows of a derelict studio inside the Ogurawa settlement

Meander at Australia and Japan

Living Quarters Alley writing built by hand from splitA narrow alleyway cuts between the crumbling concrete walls of the Ogurawa settlement's worker housing, overgrown vegetation pressing in from either side. The company housing once sheltered miners and their families at the height of Chichibu Mine's operations, when the valley held a population of more than 2,000. The last permanent resident left in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.