Bedroom Chair Type:Unframed A solitary desk sits beneath

A solitary desk sits beneath peeling paint in the tuition room of Family School Fureai

Dust coats every surface

supplying crushed dolerite as road base for northern Sydney

personal belongings still in place years after residents were displaced

A barber's chair sits abandoned inside one of Western Village's frontier town shops

Bedroom Chair Type:Unframed A solitary desk sits beneathA bedroom chair sits in one of Seika Dormitory's lower floor rooms, its worn fabric collecting dust under soft window light. The chair is one of many personal items left behind when the July 2007 fire displaced around 40 residents from the reinforced concrete building in Kohinata, Bunkyo ku, Tokyo. Built in 1927 to house Taiwanese students studying in the Japanese capital, the dormitory stood for 80 years before the fire ended its occupation. Part of