The collection · DiffusionLab

The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre. Work 6702.

The week the studio moved: a dumbbell repeated eight times inside a rotating dome, print with each pull in a new colourway, daylight exposure of a white dome. Work 6701.

The road went on past the last gate: a grass growing in the joints of a road in the time of the great haulage, frontal record of a colossal gateway, 70mm negative with even fine grain. Work 6700.

A felt king with a sequin crown through a pedestrian slot in a wall in the years of the twelve-hour shift, tiny figure against an enormous wall, colour shifted towards green. Work 6699.

A simplified bevel gears at right angles, 1919, spearfishing magazine cover, linen tracing with the ink still glossy. Work 6698.

A hundred staples and no flyer left made of mailbox side covered in pasted paper near a boiler and a water heater, the night before a show, eight flyers cut from one sheet. Work 6697.

An implacable settlement terraced into a canyon wall, the age of the deep shelters, infrared plate with a black sky. Work 6696.

A brass lamp at each end of a table, sectional figure of a theodolite, a messenger waited all morning for it, chromolitho in ochre and pale mint. Work 6695.

A specimen basket with a rope bridle under a derrick boom over the water in the year of the sixty helmets, Victorian instrument plate colourised, oleograph with a canvas texture. Work 6694.

A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun. Work 6693.

The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp. Work 6692.

A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print. Work 6691.

She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.

A crust flaking under a slow footfall in the margin beside its own paragraph, the plate was numbered out of order. Work 6689.

The sun took an hour to clear the trees: a landing skid shadow on wet sand in the first years of the 1970s, high angle over flooded ground, daylight stock at first light. Work 6688.

A Russian matryoshka painter with the far end of the street half height, the late Victorian years, military installation record photograph, pulp board warped at a corner. Work 6687.

Livery illustration in pastel tones of a fence of wire on posts along a line up a gradient of one in eighty, woven sample mounted on a page, sepia album print with corners. Work 6686.

The second era of the watchers: single figure placed for the scale of a relief band running round a base past the last survey marker. Work 6685.

A three figures at a corner for scale at the edge of a squared hole, the last of the deep soundings, survey photograph with a scale bar, frame printed full to the rebate. Work 6684.

An opened seed pod of a honesty plant photographed as an unrolling crozier of a male fern, colourist's work over a weak impression, register out by a hair. Work 6683.

Nobody came up the road for a week: sky atlas sheet of a cloudless truck hauling a mirror up a grade, 1922. Work 6682.

The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.

A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic. Work 6680.

Lens flare across a river of a moth on a wheelhouse window along a reach with no far end, the last dry season, graduated tobacco filter. Work 6679.

The print studio's busiest summer: an overprinted judge's head in flat crimson, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, silkscreen ink proud of the surface. Work 6678.

A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration. Work 6677.

Colour test with green filtration of a light coming down in solid beams and a headdress of feathers and wire, the far end of the dry season, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 6676.

Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.

A rim deck curving up out of sight hanging off a line a hundred metres out, after the last resupply, specular highlight on bare metal, screen print in two flat tones. Work 6674.

1866, a far-walled tent pitched on a pale shore with its reflection completing the shape, scale given by a single small coat. Work 6673.