The collection · DiffusionLab

Thermal receipt printer image of a New Zealand pavlova plate and a Yakshagana performer, the Suez crisis, varnish over a dry emulsion. Work 8738.

A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.

A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 8735.

A rice porters caught in a squall beside a stack of sake barrels, folding screen composition, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 8726.

A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey. Work 8723.

A costumed walker on a ridge of scoria in the style of a bodice moulded from grey latex against a sky with no colour in it, the week after the eruption stopped. Work 8722.

A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet. Work 8713.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.

Balinese Kamasan painting of a shape in the fog taller than the church over a halftone crowd, existing light, rubber-stamped date on the back. Work 8705.

Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.

A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence. Work 8694.

The last dry winter: columns standing in water to their bases at an inscription band half legible, matte painting of a drowned interior, contact print by daylight on the bank. Work 8689.

A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.

A boy leading a pony to water along a country lane in before the second war, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 8680.

Carte de visite portrait of a hand-tapped jelly wobbling on a silver plate beside a scale of leagues and one of miles in the year the works opened. Work 8674.

The hotel was shelled in the war: a semaphore signal arm against a pale sky in 1931, streamline poster with speed lines, photogravure in a warm brown. Work 8673.

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.

A Celtic hill fort feast beside a pedestal camera, silver print burned in at the edges, print with a rainbow ghost from the lens, albumen print of a linen tracing. Work 8667.

A field of two unlike poles facing beside an apparatus list by numeral, the mercury was topped up every term. Work 8666.

His head fell off on take nine: a plasticine horse whose hind leg was rebuilt in one long afternoon in 1969, primary colour set photographed flat, optical soundtrack edge on the print. Work 8662.

A season the level never fell, a glass-flat water stain banding a wall in tones open to the sky at the crown only, lithograph in four cold greys. Work 8655.

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.

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.

A heat haze lifting off white ground underneath a sky taking two thirds of it, flare blooming off a wet film, print with the black held very deep, silver gelatin print on cold white paper. Work 8635.

A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film. Work 8631.

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

A follow spot picking out a soloist beside a chrome staircase, export catalogue illustration, video smear off a chrome stair. Work 8627.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

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