The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

A tuyul, the closing years of the 1980s, department store studio portrait, chromolithograph in six colours. Work 8519.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

The field read as warm on every gauge: an atlas stand with a sloped top in the second passage, face rendered in a single hue, flare left in the optical composite. Work 8508.

The Courrèges years, a glassy-eyed map sheet weighted with two stones in a sack dress that hides the waist, Tunbridge ware mosaic. Work 8506.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

A mermaid with a comb and a mirror within a roundel of burnished gold, late 8th century, shell gold laid in fine hatching, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 8502.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file. Work 8475.

1970s wallpaper. Work 8468.

Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds. Work 8463.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8459.

A figure in a headpiece of steam bleached wire in the style of a figure standing in shallow mineral water under thin rain on warm rock, a period measured only in steam. Work 8457.

A flat cap by a kitchen range in the spring of 1953, coastguard station record photograph, a soft flatbed scan. Work 8445.

Flat colour illustration with a neon grid of a human roulette wheel and a swift screaming past a gable, the year the swimming baths opened, kinked film from a jammed transport. Work 8434.

A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees. Work 8419.

Deadpan frontal framing of a beam of sun standing in smoke at the treeline in coloured haze, 70mm print graded green, condensation on the front element. Work 8418.

Two men in pastel jackets on a marina walkway with the jacket over one shoulder, peak season for white linen, panning frame of a moving hull, glossy C-type print on resin paper. Work 8410.

A footballer's head in four flat inks, the last print of the series, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, poster print pasted and peeling. Work 8395.

A seed-drifted carved stone head half sunk in leaf litter beside a lichen map spreading over pale bark, a season when the leaves did not fall, antiquarian plate of a wooded ruin. Work 8390.

The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint. Work 8383.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 8357.

The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8335.

A hire purchased procession in single file on a chalk road along a kerb pressed out of clay, the year the supermarket opened, it came out too dark, workhouse register photograph. Work 8331.