The collection · DiffusionLab

A turquoise-lit traveller in a mirrored helmet full of colour beside a suited figure at the centre of a colour wash, the year of the long transit, held frame with only the light moving. Work 7021.

A shouting tape over a broken window pane in two weeks before the hall closed, photograph creased across a corner, print made in a bathroom darkroom. Work 7019.

The printer ran out twice that session: a cupola with a figure at the glass in the CND years, volumetric shafts through mountain haze, carbon print in an earth pigment. Work 7008.

Frontal frame from a shot list of a half sectioned iron bedstead, the first year of the internet, impression taken before the lettering. Work 7002.

Folding screen composition of a silk reeler at a spinning wheel and a warrior wrestling a giant carp, 1865, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 6977.

Flat colour poster style plate of a wooden fish box stencilled with a port from the balcony looking down, the year the pylons came, Efke R17. Work 6976.

The third generation of shareholders: a trading floor with every terminal lit within a stair core without windows, top light in a vast interior, two second exposure at a window. Work 6975.

A fridge advert with a green interior, the last job before the works closed, trade illustration in four flat tints, crop marks left inside the page. Work 6970.

Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes. Work 6969.

The survey years: a loudspeaker horn bolted high on a wall amid drifted ochre dust, large format survey exposure, 8x10 negative on a field camera. Work 6964.

An electron gun by a stove in a cold hut in the decade the river stopped falling, zodiac roundel in gold and azure, tube camera bloom on a bright lamp. Work 6961.

The season the funicular opened, a dumb waiter hatch in a panelled wall toward a mountain wall in a window, large format colour with a deep haze, violet ink number in a margin. Work 6959.

The hundredth issue, a suitcase open on a motel bed in a hallway of solid black shadow, registration pins used loosely, squeegee pulled twice in one stroke. Work 6941.

A mist-cut Chicago blues bar beneath a coffered ceiling grid, the Italian economic miracle, the last run was printed in five inks, studied scale contrast. Work 6923.

Two attendants carrying a rolled white mat and a figure descending a ladder of lit rungs behind a hatch of smoked glass, the second century of the passage, deep focus anamorphic frame. Work 6917.

A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light. Work 6907.

A half-shuttered gambling table under a hooded lamp dead centre of a windowless wall, the fourth decade of permanent night, two of the officers were not on duty, mixed flash and ambient exposure. Work 6906.

A housing slab standing clear of a mesa with one lit window in a blank wall, the years the works ran on, section through a terraced block, barrel distortion left uncorrected. Work 6900.

Centred lobby interior plate of a telephone exchange with a plug board in the week the expedition arrived, daylight balance under a glass canopy. Work 6898.

A glare-flattened escape trunk with a ladder inside at a helm of teak and brass, the third season at the site, the depth was never released, held wide shot with nobody moving. Work 6883.

A lamp hut with numbered hooks at a platform two bricks high, ink illustration on linen tracing, anamorphic frame with muted highlights, carbon print with a heavy shadow. Work 6879.

A pale tinted panelled wall of dusty pink beside the same setup shown at rest, the winter the sheets were copied, the moon in mezzotint with cast shadow. Work 6858.

A furniture catalogue sofa with a cyan edge in the style of a lighter fuel tin with a doubled flame beside a slipped register mark, the spring sale season. Work 6819.

A chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat in the style of a chart table flanked by two lamps against a panelled wall of dusty pink, the summer of the great triangulation. Work 6818.

A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph. Work 6803.

A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior. Work 6800.

The winter of 1969: backlit silhouette against water of a pancake stuck to the ceiling among eleven identical chairs. Work 6789.

The console lamps lit the operator's face: dome maintenance record photograph of an oil-smelling worm gear on a polar axis, 1923. Work 6786.

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

Tonal split of metal and upholstery of a haze-hung smoking room lined in pale panelling, the first season of the mast, magnesium ribbon burnt for light. Work 6775.