Bridge Colour:N/A producing crushed dolerite for road

producing crushed dolerite for road base across northern Sydney

A hand-painted billboard for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai covers most of the upper storey of a white clapboard building on a wet Yubari street

Sunlight cuts across the interior of Female Ward 9 and 10

A concrete path runs along the exterior wall of a timber-framed company building at the Ogurawa settlement

A rusted stove and sink sit beneath a thick layer of dust in a derelict kitchen of the Ogurawa settlement at Nichitsu Mining Village

Bridge Colour:N/A producing crushed dolerite for roadA concrete bridge crosses a void inside the Ogurawa settlement, its surface patched with moss and threaded through with vines. Part of the infrastructure built to sustain a community of miners and their families through the peak decades of Chichibu Mine. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.