Dining Table Type:Framed Empty desks and chairs stand

Empty desks and chairs stand in rows beneath windows that still let the light in

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

the structure shows the age and condition you would expect from decades of salt water and minimal maintenance

Sunlight pushes through a grimy window into the attic of Box Hill Brickworks

Dining Table Type:Framed Empty desks and chairs standDust coats a dining table and chairs inside a company residence at the Ogurawa settlement, Nichitsu Mining Village, the remote community in Saitama Prefecture that housed the families of Chichibu Mine workers at its peak. The settlement emptied after metal extraction ceased in 1978, with its last permanent resident leaving in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.