The collection · DiffusionLab

Construction photograph of a dome shell of an orbital diagram painted on a panel, scan lines across a dome image, points of light slightly out of round. Work 6854.

A spectacled fireman's face in blown-out orange under a hard studio lamp, the week the pink ink arrived, the second colourway was worse on purpose, flat head over a printed dot screen. Work 6838.

A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph. Work 6803.

A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior. Work 6800.

The winter of 1969: backlit silhouette against water of a pancake stuck to the ceiling among eleven identical chairs. Work 6789.

The console lamps lit the operator's face: dome maintenance record photograph of an oil-smelling worm gear on a polar axis, 1923. Work 6786.

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 6747.

The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows. Work 6744.

A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film. Work 6732.

A sound horn behind a dome panel under a mirror ball over the rink in the peak of the roller craze, collotype plate in a museum volume. Work 6731.

The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers. Work 6709.

A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate. Work 6706.

The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre. Work 6702.

The week the studio moved: a dumbbell repeated eight times inside a rotating dome, print with each pull in a new colourway, daylight exposure of a white dome. Work 6701.

A spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light. Work 6668.

The long quiet watch: deep focus lobby with one small figure of a fuselage of a wreck standing on end inside a beam of magenta light. Work 6657.

An airport departures board with impossible destinations, long exposure. Work 6656.

Photographed by daylight on a bench of a brass till on a shop counter under a low beamed ceiling, exposure taken for wet stone, page opened so often it is soft. Work 6655.

A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery. Work 6654.

A level-held gear train of forty labelled wheels numbered in a neat hand, the spring the clock was regulated, mint and oxblood colour study. Work 6643.

A floating hospital in the style of a snake shedding its skin past a bank of white lockers, the coldest hour of the night. Work 6642.

A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore. Work 6640.

A food mixer under a stucco archway, a pound for the whole box. Work 6622.

A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph. Work 6621.

A repeated courtyard with a single tree beside a long dining table in a cold room, 1971, widescreen anamorphic frame. Work 6609.

Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall. Work 6601.

A betting shop in the afternoon, screens, carpet, low light. Work 6600.

A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source. Work 6594.

A reflected ceiling plan in a tropical courtyard, it was listed the week before demolition. Work 6592.