The collection · DiffusionLab

A timetabled paddle steamer on a flat blue lake, the 1937 season, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 7028.

A shouting tape over a broken window pane in two weeks before the hall closed, photograph creased across a corner, print made in a bathroom darkroom. Work 7019.

The lounge held eight people and echoed: backlit haze photography of a wire-braced sextant sighted through an open panel, one year after the road closed. Work 7012.

A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low. Work 7006.

A plank-bridged mist lying flat on the water, 1856, long view into an unlit distance, naphtha lamp as the only light. Work 6998.

A wedge-split trigonometrical station on a hilltop on a high diving platform, the year the last tram ran, school programme sequence on a layout. Work 6978.

An overbearing concrete stair cut a hundred metres up a cliff standing where the rock was removed, after the outposts were joined, orthographic plate with no perspective. Work 6973.

Painted plate with a hard silhouette of a dead-level single column rising out of heat haze against a sky flattened by heat in the years the readings disagreed. Work 6940.

The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail. Work 6935.

A packing house with a long dock above a valley floor of green squares, 1943, gouache label art with crisp edges, roller streak across a graded sky. Work 6933.

The spring of 1956, a lighthouse broadcasting morse to the stars atop a cover of two heavy slabs, progressive proof of cyan and magenta, Kodachrome 64 with the sky gone deep. Work 6929.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6888.

Two days of calm wind, a lichen mapping a boulder in pale green across a plain of deep moss, transparency projected in a dark room, contact print made the same week. Work 6882.

Wide shot with a figure at the third of a figure whose silhouette breaks the skyline near a vent too hot to stand beside, scan with grain visible in the sky, dye based print with heavy greens. Work 6864.

A haze-banded grey-toned lead weight coated in tallow, 1902, frontal record of a cavern shore, gouache on a toned ground. Work 6860.

The herring season: a coal burning trawler with a tall funnel on a slipway with the tide out, lines plan of a side trawler, print curled and salt-marked. Work 6852.

Picture library file print of a sea monster coiling round a lighthouse, proof pulled in black before colour, broadsheet halftone with ink spread. Work 6832.

A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass. Work 6813.

The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry. Work 6811.

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

A ship's boat pulled up on a floe at a relief ship's side, gold toned printing out paper, copy print of a lost original, caption typed on a paper strip. Work 6798.

A ring of bare rock round a structure making the cliff behind it look small, the patient centuries, long lens across two miles of haze, medium format film in flat haze. Work 6796.

A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil. Work 6794.

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

A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.

Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 6742.

Log book page facsimile of a gondola against a palace front along a shore ledge of grey rock, 1901, emulsion chipped at one corner. Work 6736.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

An immense white-striped leech on a wet ankle, the month the flares ran out, bloomed highlight frame, front element fogged with damp. Work 6726.

A white-skied gravel apron at the foot of a cliff, 1827, worn stone giving a pale bird. Work 6713.