The collection · DiffusionLab

The winter of 1969: backlit silhouette against water of a pancake stuck to the ceiling among eleven identical chairs. Work 6789.

An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater. Work 6776.

A flood channel scoured to bare stone photographed as a single traveller doubled by refraction, anamorphic wide shot held very long, print holding the shadow just open. Work 6772.

A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.

Shallow focus across a crowd of a wet awnings layered ten deep at the mouth of a flooded alley, sodium orange in the mid tones, smoke machine haze on a night set. Work 6755.

Forced perspective town in one frame of a duck pond of poured resin, grain visible in the painted sky, tripod exposure with a cable release. Work 6753.

Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 6742.

Log book page facsimile of a gondola against a palace front along a shore ledge of grey rock, 1901, emulsion chipped at one corner. Work 6736.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

An immense white-striped leech on a wet ankle, the month the flares ran out, bloomed highlight frame, front element fogged with damp. Work 6726.

The middle 1980s, a dock-edged live oak alone in a pasture nailed to a raw pine end, trade mark animal in flat colour. Work 6725.

A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame. Work 6722.

A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate. Work 6706.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A neon-washed alpine saxifrage on a rock fragment beside an alley mouth glowing green, the middle of the synthetic boom, rim light through falling rain. Work 6666.

A tide dropping a trawler in a berth under a lighthouse on a pier, orthochromatic plate in sea haze, thin underexposed negative, litho poster in flat greys. Work 6665.

The geophysical year of 1958, an unlit air hose tended by hand recovered on the second attempt, cine film frame enlargement. Work 6659.

A sounding wire through a hole in the ice, the early 1900s, published narrative frontispiece, ink title along the lower edge. Work 6651.

A reduced diesel submarine alongside a couched animal, the Italian Renaissance, perspective corrected architectural plate. Work 6650.

A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore. Work 6640.

An inspection pit a foot deep into a culvert of brick under a line, the years of three engines. Work 6635.

A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner. Work 6628.

A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement. Work 6620.

Watercolour of a country house of a society photographer with a Rolleiflex on a hotel terrace above the sea, the early 1930s, deckle edged print. Work 6619.

A first class hydrofoil crossing a bay, the package tour years, luggage label design, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon. Work 6618.