Kids Bedroom Colour:Raw An Esso fuel tanker sits

An Esso fuel tanker sits in the yard at Bombala Railway Station

Utility poles and a steep hillside fill the background

Concrete columns rise floor to ceiling

molten sparks cascading in every direction

The site opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium on Kings Tableland and operated continuously for 96 years

Kids Bedroom Colour:Raw An Esso fuel tanker sitsA Slam Dunk manga poster and a folded length of indigo patterned fabric lean against the darkened timber panelling of a child's bedroom in the Ogurawa settlement, Nichitsu, Saitama. Frosted glass windows draw flat light across the grey carpet and scattered debris. The settlement was uninhabited from September 2006, the mine having shed its families steadily since metal extraction ceased in 1978. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.