The collection · DiffusionLab

A blood-speckled launch of a trawler down a slip before the market opens, 1913, marine painting in oils. Work 7597.

Low vantage along a level beach of a fungus shelf glowing on wet stone and a ripple ring crossing a still bay, 1856, technical pen with stippled rock. Work 7582.

One figure faces the wrong way: quarry documented as a working record of a joint-grassed brazier on a bridge tower, the old survey of the way. Work 7578.

A 1936 reprint: a lighthouse on a rocky point in front of a dresser of blue plates, nursery frieze manner in flat colour, watercolour wash over ink on cartridge. Work 7545.

Symmetrical composition between two figures of a soot-darkened stone jetty running out into shallow water, the first crossing of the gorge, wet collodion on a large glass plate. Work 7533.

A shallow stream running clear over stone, a century without a road, sublime vista rendered through openings, cyanotype toned back to olive. Work 7514.

Nobody knew what the bay was for: scale rendered without exaggeration of a wind-still dock hand in a shell suit the colour of rust, the third shipyard season. Work 7509.

A stalactite-hung rope ladder against a wall of rock, the summer of the deep survey, lithographic plate from an expedition, charcoal with chalk on grey paper. Work 7500.

A brine pool reflecting a white sky above a water film a finger deep in the season the pan doubled the sun, gold toned print with pale shadows. Work 7497.

Wide anamorphic frame with a small walker of a rope-bound fissure breathing steam along its length, late autumn of an unnamed year, seventy millimetre colour negative. Work 7491.

A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 7482.

A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7474.

A reservoir with its feeder streams among hachured hills crowded together in the gatefold years, chromolithograph on a stout coated sheet. Work 7463.

A wedge started with a sledge and a skid road town at the waterfront, saturated tropical colour still, aerial haze flattening a ridge. Work 7452.

An age measured by the water mark, a moss-lined shoal turning below a reflected arch doubled exactly in the water below, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 7426.

Before the structures were counted, an indifferent stone basin holding green water still square to within a hair, long lens frame flattened by haze. Work 7425.

A bell hung in a bridge tower arch in the style of a flood mark cut high on a pier under the knee of a seated colossus, the third widening of the road. Work 7417.

An excursion-bound row of bathing huts painted in stripes past a silhouetted headland, the first postwar summer, luggage label vignette. Work 7416.

The bridge went in the next flood: a drowned village in the last job before the works closed, flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks, stopped to f32 for front to back focus. Work 7415.

An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 7411.

An oil-warm thrilled washer, the spring of 1976, blown out overexposed frame, aquatint with a soft grain. Work 7379.

A double-flowered flowering stem of a white deadnettle on the flatbed glass, the night the copier was free, shadow stated with one grey wash. Work 7374.

A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks. Work 7369.

Winter sports poster in three inks of a propliner banking over a coastline under a midnight sun, the first postwar summer, ink stamp of the printing house. Work 7367.

A diesel side trawler riding a swell photographed as a net spread out on a quay to mend, realist harbour painting in flat greys, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 7365.

A pylon of battered stone flanking a way over a culvert under a raised road, an age remembered by its kerbs. Work 7334.

Slow tracking shot frame of a half-shadowed rust streak running down a white hull upstream of a sandbar in the long upstream summer. Work 7301.

A tugboat with a smoking funnel made of drum with crossed sticks on a hotel matchbook with a crest, 1769, thinned paper where the box came away. Work 7300.

A figure ringed by six shifting discs inside a tank of still shallow water, the year the lamps were replaced, full figure small inside a dark frame, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 7280.