The collection · DiffusionLab

A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky. Work 8125.

A bootleg cord panel of numbered jacks under an ad screen three storeys tall, the era of the licensed face, the fountain had been dry for years, low angle from a polished floor. Work 8122.

The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer. Work 8116.

A Swahili doorway photographed as a sky lobby, low angle hero shot of a tower, wide angle at 28mm on the terrace. Work 8107.

The second season under the ice: a humidor of polished walnut at the far end of a silent space, wide angle interior with a vanishing point, uncoated lens flaring on a lamp. Work 8104.

A magenta-hazed temple gate with a carved face under a canopy pressing on a wall, the last of the wet months, the smoke would not leave the gallery, unhurried held composition. Work 8102.

A bricked arch with one course removed sheltering against a warm duct, a hundred years after the first bore, smoke-filled stage underground, blueprint process on blue paper. Work 8095.

An arch-spanned trough cut from one block of stone, the age of the road builders, near-monochrome stone with gold accents, ground glass squared to the road axis. Work 8091.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

A boulder field shivering in the distance and a model town hall with a matchstick portico, in camera sunset made with a gel, flare cutting across the whole frame. Work 8074.

A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres. Work 8064.

The ferry was requisitioned that autumn: oasis palms beside a still pool in the first postwar summer, poster with a ruled red route line, four pin holes at the corners. Work 8063.

Record illustration of a ruined interior of a shaft-lit drum of a column resting on the floor, the third rise of the level, wood engraving on a fine block. Work 8058.

The years of the eight-year lifespan, a white corridor lit by ceiling strips under a green ring light, soft box over a steel bench, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 8055.

A greenish pub menu with a green pint at the counter of a boot room, the last job before the works closed, the sheet slipped once and kept going, handbill art with hand-set type. Work 8049.

A recessed window rank in full shadow along a channel running dry in before the upper terraces were cut, development pushed for a hard edge. Work 8033.

A petrol station in the middle of nowhere, kodachrome, heat haze. Work 8001.

A tunnel mouth squared out of rock within a courtyard open to the sky, shift lens elevation of a facade, dust specks printed into the sky. Work 8000.

A bobbin-laden camera pointed at its own monitor against undyed linen gone honey, the Iron Curtain years, the hall let them have it for nothing, listed building consent photograph. Work 7998.

The Maya classic period, a gold-edged hobgoblin sergeant above a marble dado, contre jour sunrise still. Work 7994.

A trunk-laden tiled corridor of identical doors, the season the funicular opened, violet ink number in a margin. Work 7984.

A small boat moored to a column base in the style of an offering shelf just clear of the water beside a lion head spout gone dry, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 7983.

Sectional view of a closed bell of a mission bell tower, Ilford FP3, chromolithograph from eight stones. Work 7982.

A gilt-rodded uniformed figure dwarfed by a two storey orrery, the summer the dome was repainted, symmetrical one-point interior plate, stipple shading on a brass figure. Work 7961.

A figure in mirrored lenses among carvings, a day the stone stayed cool, low angle up a stone stair, print graded warm on the stone. Work 7958.

A vapour-wreathed lift bank of eight numbered doors, a spring of long daylight, long lens at two hundred millimetres. Work 7954.

A thorn-fenced couple in matching towelling on a stone step in the Chilean Unidad Popular years, anamorphic print with a soft edge, Polaroid 669 peel-apart. Work 7952.

A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print. Work 7947.

Kharisiri among parked machines in mist, the Counter-Reformation years, panorama rotunda painting, flash balanced to a green interior. Work 7935.

A wall niche with a small stone figure within an inner court open to the sky in the years nothing was carried out, watercolour over a graphite grid. Work 7931.