The collection · DiffusionLab

Long lens study through fog of a figure holding a struck bar still ringing, wide crop with a high flat horizon, colour balanced to grey daylight. Work 8672.

The years of the false readings, a figure standing at the base looking up behind a drift piled on one side, screen print in four flat greys, low speed emulsion with a long scale. Work 8668.

The suite came with its own telephone number: a woman with a bouquet larger than herself in the week of the gala, shot from the corridor into a suite, print with the chandelier burnt in. Work 8653.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

Reflection frame in a boat windscreen of a woman in a peach bikini holding a parrot beneath a hotel sign in script neon, a long weekend in 1984, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 8650.

The lift served one button only: a construction crane on an unfinished crown in the corporate century, silhouetted figure at a great window, digital matte with painted atmosphere. Work 8647.

A smoke-veiled speaker flown from a chain hoist above the deck on a top rail, two days before the doors opened, the frame outlasted the building, sleeve front with a steel frame photograph. Work 8643.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

The era of the indigo robe, a dark tent cloth staked into sand among shadows nine animals long, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 4x5 colour transparency in flat noon. Work 8637.

The second ascent: duralumin-framed two clerks in dusty pink jackets, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, letterpress plate with a number block. Work 8630.

1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks. Work 8629.

A lichen-ringed cool-shaded frieze of figures under green haze, the month of the flower offerings, 70mm temple sequence still, warm filter on grey stone. Work 8625.

The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

Gloss on silver as the brightest thing of a woman in a robe on a telephone with a long cord signing without looking at the total, the season at the hotel. Work 8610.

A soft-edged suited figure lit only along one edge, the seventh transit, 70mm print with the colour left screaming. Work 8600.

A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

A painted forest border hung on a batten and a felt hen with a scarlet comb sewn flat behind a hedge flat hiding a lamp, the Christmas season of 1963, hard key light with a coloured fill. Work 8594.

A papa a la huancaína, die cut scrap sheet, the shell came from a taped-over album, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8591.

A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.

A woman at the wheel with her eyes shut, the last night of the season, jewellery advertisement under a chandelier, print spotted out along the rail. Work 8575.

A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments. Work 8567.

1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line. Work 8565.

A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow. Work 8560.

Still life of table silver on baize of a woman in a pleated gown by a mirrored column through a shaft of sun on bevelled glass, colour transparency of mint and brass. Work 8554.

Naive figures worked out of proportion of a maker's name and her age in small letters worked in two shades of green, the mid Victorian decades. Work 8552.

A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.

A sleeper-bound llama on a high altiplano road, the late 1920s, flat-tint poster illustration, lithographed on coarse poster paper. Work 8528.

The Reconstruction era, a tiple at the top of chapter one, interlace comb on a fast move, a faded dye coupler stain. Work 8526.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 8523.