The collection · DiffusionLab

A terracotta panel with a stylised palm in a smoking room with Egyptian murals, soft focus portrait lens, orthochromatic plate, hard directional key light. Work 5857.

A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner. Work 5846.

An empty corridor at a zinc counter, tracking shot held too long, sea haze flattening the distance. Work 5836.

Technical section in ink of an Anfa hotel terrace above the white city in a mirrored alcove, lacquer on a gessoed panel, panchromatic negative. Work 5830.

An anodised precast tension cable roof, the reconstruction years, photograph of an architectural model, Panatomic-X fine grain. Work 5807.

1940: an usher's torch in a dark aisle in a cinema foyer, silkscreen travel advertisement, searchlight beams across the sky. Work 5806.

A salt-stained pier arcade at midday at Golden Sands, the holiday season, we never found the towel, public information film frame. Work 5800.

A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 5798.

Faded Eastmancolor print frame of a ticking wall clock in a hallway, Ferraniacolor warm cast, Ilford HPS pushed. Work 5787.

A stone brought back from a walk against a bare wall, 1981, Arte Povera installation photograph, daylight through a skylight. Work 5783.

The floor was still lit: sheet music cover illustration of a wired glass sprinter in the blocks, the Romantic period. Work 5782.

A value priced glass of wine on a zinc counter in the winter of 1984, hand spotted dust on a print, north light through a clerestory. Work 5779.

A palm fringed thatched roof over a bar printed over with a price panel, the year the reef was still clear, brochure gatefold of a resort. Work 5773.

Sectional model photograph of a town hall with a projecting chamber beside a Yugoslav memorial, 1932, two point perspective from the corner. Work 5766.

Publicity still with a prop robot of a reactor hall with a crane in the year of the fair, Agfacolor stock. Work 5761.

A diner and an eclair in the early 1900s, oil on panel. Work 5756.

An air freshener misting over a sofa in the style of a pedestal camera on a studio floor in a garage with the hood up, the mid 1980s. Work 5752.

The last season before the war, a swimming pool cut into a rock in a first class lounge, mist on a river at dawn, caption typed on a slip beneath. Work 5740.

A joss paper house under warranty during Advent, wooden, prison commissary list, light across a floor. Work 5732.

Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp. Work 5710.

A puncture repair kit made of Foucault pendulum, soapstone, Ezra Stoller photograph, spring light. Work 5708.

A varnished tarmac spreader in an ice cave, Fernand Leger canvas, library reading light, humid haze. Work 5707.

A school corridor in the holidays, available light, polished floor. Work 5695.

A mural of a rocket over a counter on a formica counter in 1939, lit from below like a stage. Work 5691.

By mistake: a dugong in a department store, Wu Guanzhong ink painting. Work 5690.

An industrial park with empty lots measured at a scale of one to fifty, the post war years, marker rendering on layout paper, one point perspective down a corridor. Work 5682.

A moroccan lunar crater made of sugar glass, rococo fete galante, wildfire smoke light. Work 5676.

A cinema foyer with a sunburst balustrade in the Mauresque manner, the summer of 1937, architectural elevation in ink and wash, low key studio lighting. Work 5672.

A mahogany commandeered herald with a long trumpet, monster truck rally poster, as a child would explain it, sleeper cabin lamp. Work 5668.

A three piece suite under plastic covers, Claude-Joseph Vernet storm, retro-futurist, ORWO UN54. Work 5667.