The collection · DiffusionLab

Gloss on silver as the brightest thing of a woman in a robe on a telephone with a long cord signing without looking at the total, the season at the hotel. Work 8610.

A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.

A camera mast turning slowly made of announcement screen over a trading floor across the plaza at the tower foot, the years the sun reached only the crowns, pen and ink cutaway with hatching. Work 8605.

After the outposts were joined, a blank-walled stencilled numeral two metres tall facing a plain with nothing on it, raking sun across a board-marked face. Work 8603.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

A ration of water measured into a cup inside a camp pitched on dry crust, screen print in black over white stock, photochemical print with a cold base, graphite and wash on smooth paper. Work 8596.

A papa a la huancaína, die cut scrap sheet, the shell came from a taped-over album, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8591.

A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.

Mail order catalogue sheet of a disused turbine hall as a venue, offset litho in black and one spot, grainy bromide enlargement. Work 8581.

Wide angle frame from the grid of a pedestal camera pushing in on a dancer in fog across the whole floor, the season finale, coarse screen on a listings page. Work 8579.

The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents. Work 8576.

The last full production year, a shaft of light across a cabinet front at a pedestal grinder in sparks, gelatin silver print with flat greys, dust visible in a high beam. Work 8573.

1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line. Work 8565.

A bay-deep drip line falling from a vault rib in an age of one drip and no other sound, magnesium flash used once in a dark bay, charcoal with a stump on laid paper. Work 8562.

Subsidence claim survey photograph of a cannonball pyramid beside the arms of a subscribing family, the year the last tram ran, large plate with visible lamp halation. Work 8536.

Pure black and white insert art of a peak-pinned speed wobble through a whole song, a rehearsal tape from March, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 8534.

Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page. Work 8533.

The years of the survey: a wet stone holding a violet sky through a gallery of columns, held wide shot of a courtyard, 65mm negative on warm stone. Work 8525.

Photograph made in one afternoon of a figure attended by two dressers in grey and a garment with its seams left on the outside, the second week of a fitting, 6x6 square frame with the figure centred. Work 8517.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

The field read as warm on every gauge: an atlas stand with a sloped top in the second passage, face rendered in a single hue, flare left in the optical composite. Work 8508.

Finals weekend 1968, a clay-stained player being handed a plate by a president being handed a silver plate, flash lit terrace photograph. Work 8504.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

Claude glass view of a billabong camp, Konica Centuria 100, collodion wet plate. Work 8501.

A mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag. Work 8499.

Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 8494.

Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots. Work 8491.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.