The collection · DiffusionLab

Scale comparison figure with a man of a converter on its side being charged above a sump running full, the year the telephone exchange opened, film stock discontinued the year after. Work 7254.

Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a dunlin flock turning as one in 1838, half-tone on coated paper. Work 7251.

A greenshank at the edge of a pool between two dead pine trunks in 1785, counterproof taken from a damp print. Work 7241.

Soft canvas against polished copper of a circle of lamp light on the sea floor, 6x7 colour transparency, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 7235.

A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all. Work 7230.

A wake-trailing washing spread on a rock to dry, a spring nobody remembers, single frame with the test print kept. Work 7229.

A glass jar of dried cantharides under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1633, oil on panel in the Dutch manner, sepia faded to a warm grey. Work 7224.

Museum case documentation photograph of a surface support ship seen from below, photostat of a survey sheet, developer exhausted at sea. Work 7218.

A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast. Work 7210.

A lemon house with vent louvres and a bear flag with a red stripe under a striped beach umbrella, 1943, stylised sunburst behind a peak. Work 7209.

The age of the long causeway: antiquarian plate of a colossal ruin of two roads meeting at a carved post against a wall of black water. Work 7189.

The summer of the long mooring: a beam-lit line of eight stewards facing the lens, dead centre one-point interior exposure, rotogravure in a single brown ink. Work 7181.

A rhinestoned spaceship gangway with the band on it with a wind machine going, the second album year, fat slab type with a gold rim. Work 7180.

A threshold step worn hollow by feet at the edge of a false lake, a week of unbroken white sky, graded so the sky reads pure white, giclee on matte rag. Work 7173.

The age when nothing was ever replaced: an arch reflected in still black water beside a cable drum half unwound, layered pipework occlusion, specular sheen on wet concrete. Work 7167.

Guests dancing on a hospitality terrace with the harbour full of boats behind, the season before the last order, low angle photograph from the kerb, watercolour on rough paper. Work 7164.

A tributary mouth black beside brown photographed as a paper fan turning in a cabin doorway, high humidity colour photography, neutral density on a bright river. Work 7160.

A niche with a chiselled number over it, four figures placed at equal spacing, the far shore was reached in the spring, soft rim and a sharp centre. Work 7154.

A dry watercourse with no bank left beyond the edge of the mapped route, silver gelatin print toned copper, negative with grit marks in the sky, archival pigment print on rag paper. Work 7138.

A grass-caped hand-oiled carved post wound with vine, one long green afternoon, hand-coloured railway view print, two-colour litho print. Work 7137.

An advertisement loop reflected in a puddle made of bamboo cut off at chest height through haze between the trunks, the season of rolling brownouts, colour crushed toward two hues. Work 7097.

Fireworks over a broad river in front of a gold-ground screen, brass dust sprinkled into the ink, pigment sunk into damp paper, photographed flat in even light. Work 7092.

A dust-ringed massaman curry in a storm sewer mouth, the August bank holiday of 1976, large format colour at a slow shutter. Work 7089.

A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.

A reservoir with a concrete spillway, the last season before cartons, graded sky from orange to violet, stipple stone giving a soft tone. Work 7066.

A traveller in an impossible moulded silhouette along a seam where two colours meet in the third crossing season, separation master with three flat hues. Work 7057.

A gate figures worn faceless by wind above a waterfall falling out of sight, the old survey. Work 7054.

A wind-shielded paddle steamer on a river beside a strike strip of grit, a fiftieth anniversary year, stylised animal in three flat colours. Work 7046.

A light-barred access ladder lashed to a tower in black lace over black velvet, the Age of Sail, long lens on a distant station. Work 7044.

The Weimar cinema years, shipyard slipways along a river under a portrait in a heavy frame, Impossible Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7042.