The collection · DiffusionLab

A foam spread across a pane of glass and a station break slide with the call letters in a sound stage with the doors shut, the late 1960s, super laid over a still. Work 5909.

A barber leaning in his own doorway at a country club bar, ask the man who smokes them. Work 5907.

The Afrobeat years, a hawk-moth feeding from a honeysuckle in a shopfront of black Vitrolite, Adox KB17, grid spot on the product. Work 5890.

A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 5887.

A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board. Work 5885.

A beach hut door open to the sea beside a boating lake in the summer of 1976, David Hurn style photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 5881.

A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting. Work 5880.

The second take was the one they used: an end lockup with a logo panel in 1979, in store demonstration segment, herringbone interference pattern. Work 5858.

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 pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X. Work 5842.

A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame. Work 5838.

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.

35mm colour transparency of a bougainvillea over a breeze block wall on a strip of dead lawn, Kodachrome II, slight barrel distortion. Work 5812.

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

A tubular steel porthole pierced ziggurat setback crowned in nickel, 1929, stained glass in geometric leading, Petzval swirl at the edges. Work 5784.

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 servant is visible in the mirror: an owner in the winner's enclosure in 1936, sporting photograph, rotogravure ink. Work 5767.

A coat check window at the Sugar Shack in Munich, Ektachrome 400, underexposed background, poor colour registration. Work 5753.

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

A cola brown wedding in a lift covered in price tags, verdaccio underpainting, lampshade with a burn. Work 5692.

Moroccan zellige of a summer house on a Tuesday in 1911, back focused. Work 5677.

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.

The ending was shot first: Techniscope frame of a peasant corridor with doors on both sides, 1965. Work 5662.

Sponsored by the tide: an air pump at a garage at matins, Bocklin island painting. Work 5656.

1955, a mosaic panel on a gable wall under a space frame roof, large format with a shift lens, dust and scratches from the archive. Work 5648.

A nostalgic snowed-in Tilley lamp, Ndebele house painting, a sonnet about gravel, sun faded print. Work 5647.

A fluted chrome elevator door with a chevron inlay beside a raked funnel, 1935, the liner burned at her pier, travel agency window display. Work 5643.

Route marked on a map of an unexplained stone stairs down to water in a Turin gallery in the spring of 1968. Work 5639.

Lartigue photograph of a water tower in the Garden of Eden, umber shadows. Work 5636.