The collection · DiffusionLab

Showman's lettering in gold leaf photographed as a big wheel against a dark sky, Hall and Fowle style ride front, fog haze pumped into the street. Work 10303.

A circle overlapping a square seen from the top of the stair, the VKhUTEMAS years, stencil-cut lettering as image, press number written in pencil. Work 10302.

A hot violet balloon tiled in clashing primaries, an unnumbered proof run, gloss patch where the ink pooled. Work 10301.

The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern. Work 10300.

Regional film archive still of a high-rise hotel behind the beach, interlace comb on movement, focus hunting. Work 10299.

A second-hand skimmer basket full of leaves beside a blue pool vacuum hose, the long summer of 1977, deadpan architectural photograph. Work 10298.

A coal burning trawler with a tall funnel up a harbour on a rising tide, the herring season, pen study of a net mender, grey scale with no white in it. Work 10297.

A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation. Work 10296.

Streamline poster with speed lines of an airbrushed bill poster with a brush and bucket inside a booking hall in the coronation summer. Work 10295.

A catwalk around a dome base and a power line marching up a ridge on a catwalk at dusk, 1922, finding chart from a survey plate. Work 10294.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10293.

Periscope cross hairs on a freighter behind a lettered sound effect in a summer double number, process red and cyan figure study, rotary press blur at the panel edge. Work 10292.

1836, an atlas stand with a sloped top through a yard in fog, underexposed foreground ballast, warm-toned bromide print. Work 10291.

A summer with the sun behind cloud: vista with one bright garment in it of a crater lake flat and grey among low mounds of old tephra. Work 10290.

An ice factory chute on a quay and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, society transactions figure, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 10289.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10288.

A tobacco advert with a magenta ghost on a pinboard of overlapping notices, offset print with dot gain in the shadows, dot gain swallowing the shadow detail. Work 10287.

A schematic of a radio that receives nothing, blueprint, oil stains. Work 10286.

A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round. Work 10285.

A stone-floored potting shed with seedlings on every sill past a raft of floating logs, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the third one from the left, Japanese ema votive plaque. Work 10284.

1824: a champagne-lit branch of quince with two fruits, fashion plate shot at three in the morning, register out by a hair. Work 10283.

A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration. Work 10282.

A dust storm covering a whole region, the third construction era, slow rotation held in one frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 10281.

A windowless horn pair angled at an empty yard beside a matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the second programme, offset litho plate in muted colour. Work 10280.

Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10279.

Held wide shot of a courtyard of a rose budded at the neck of a stock in one year after the road closed, exposed for the haze and not the stone. Work 10278.

Six-step tonal range in warm greys of a bark pale as bone in flat light in the long gold autumn, pen and iron gall ink on vellum. Work 10277.

Extreme widescreen composition of a mirror-lensed sodium coloured sun low over the reach along a cut bank of red clay in the season of coloured smoke. Work 10276.

A flat-inked rocket lifting off a gantry, the newsstand years, flat ink panel with a benday sky, halftone dots turned into flat circles. Work 10275.

A running order taped to the proscenium beside a well of painted tins, the week of the village pageant, cross fade between two stage pictures, quadruplex banding across the picture. Work 10274.