The collection · DiffusionLab

A thumbed milk churn lorry, the Moscow Olympics year, cross-processed for orange and cyan. Work 7413.

An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 7411.

A grit-blasted fuel drums stacked by a landing mark in the years the maps stopped agreeing, medium format chrome in full glare, base scratch running through a frame. Work 7381.

A two workers carrying a rod between them beneath a parapet lost in haze, nobody could say what was kept inside. Work 7375.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

A windpump turning slowly above a tank, environment study in three values, the tally came out even for once, photochemical print on a neutral base. Work 7344.

A cable-scarred carousel slide projector on a sky bridge at the fortieth floor, the closing years of the 1990s, mirrored bilateral composition. Work 7271.

The summer of 1939: hand-lettered balloon over halftone of a green zebra tomato against a treeline at first light. Work 7256.

A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all. Work 7230.

A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast. Work 7210.

An eclipse seen through cloud, long exposure, diffuse ring. Work 7191.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7170.

A portcullis of iron-shod timber and a hawk circling below the tower floor beneath a hanging valley, the long peace under the towers, vertical composition emphasising height. Work 7162.

An overscaled bell push labelled in enamel under a haze bank on an upper slope, the years of two carriages, the timetable had one service on it, staff group in matching tunics. Work 7126.

A frost-split flight of steps vanishing into cloud beyond the highest tree on the slope, the time of the nine towers, monumental architecture under cold light. Work 7118.

An oppressive fin rising from a gravel plain toward a mass that never comes closer, after the third expedition returned, the base went deeper than the sounding, scale read only by a human speck. Work 7102.

Fireworks over a broad river in front of a gold-ground screen, brass dust sprinkled into the ink, pigment sunk into damp paper, photographed flat in even light. Work 7092.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 7075.

A light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.

A fox looking back over a hedge against a pale washed sky in early 1930s, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 7043.

The second colonial decade: a tarpaulin-covered screen wall selling something in two tongues, airbrushed genre poster treatment, heavy atmospheric density. Work 7036.

A monolithic sealed half-built setback with exposed steel, the years after the tower fires, annual report photography, daylight balance at cloud height. Work 7031.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

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 stiffly empty pasteboard walled water tower on four dowel legs, the second roller summer, hard key light and a cool fill, Agfa colour print gone slightly green. Work 6982.

Niello silver plaque of a thermal airship, two heads on a paddock group, tin glaze crazed in a fine web. Work 6980.

An unshaded line-abreast salt pyramid taller than a rider, the years measured in blocks lifted, value study with almost no mid tone, scratch crossing a blank area. Work 6979.

Four-ink railway poster of a mushroom house running into ochre haze, the age of the loaded animal. Work 6955.

Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod. Work 6948.

A sun-backed rotor blades blurred into a grey disc through a curtain of spray, the short season of clear mornings, the shadow arrived first, 70mm silhouette frame. Work 6944.