The collection · DiffusionLab

A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 8522.

Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a half-ruined line of porters on a cliff ledge, an age measured only in watches, steel engraving with ruled skies. Work 8518.

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 mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag. Work 8499.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.

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.

Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8448.

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

A longhorn steer at a water trough over a range of violet mountains in 1926, proof plate with colour progressions, clay coated label stock with a sheen. Work 8439.

An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman. Work 8437.

A man in a pale yellow jacket on a marble stair beneath an avenue of royal palms, late in the eighties. Work 8429.

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.

Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8417.

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 natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8399.

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 silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape. Work 8376.

After the site was left open: figure at a fraction of a percent of frame of a stair with no building over it after the haze has hidden the top. Work 8370.

A man in a bomber jacket carrying a boom box amid a scatter of dark gravel, the last years of the overland crossing, palette of bleached white and deep ochre, peel apart instant print. Work 8364.

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.