The collection · DiffusionLab

A heat haze lifting off white ground underneath a sky taking two thirds of it, flare blooming off a wet film, print with the black held very deep, silver gelatin print on cold white paper. Work 8635.

A penny rambler rose over an arch beside a daffodil trumpet in a mixed bunch, just after the war, letterpress with a stock engraving. Work 8634.

A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film. Work 8631.

1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks. Work 8629.

A follow spot picking out a soloist beside a chrome staircase, export catalogue illustration, video smear off a chrome stair. Work 8627.

A staircase rail of turned brass, the second station generation, subject placed small in a huge frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 8622.

The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.

The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

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 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.

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 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.

Grain heavy dupe of a composite of a projector running one frame at a time at the foot of a plaster column, emulsion scratch across a plate shot, soundtrack hiss on a reel end. Work 8574.

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.

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.

A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls. Work 8545.

An infused slice of dried rhubarb root beside a sheet of blistering plaster, 1710, delft blue laid over a white glaze. Work 8539.

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.

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.

1926, a laurel-framed stucco house with a round arch with two leaves still attached, brand emblem in a roundel. Work 8498.

Auction lot photograph of a clay road painted grey onto hardboard in the colonial years, magicube. Work 8495.