The collection · DiffusionLab

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

A gas-tested signal bell wire down the shaft at the coal face on a wet morning, the year of the lockout, the pony never came up again, technical manual illustration. Work 6758.

A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 6747.

A Balinese offering basket down a runner carpet in mint, 1791. Work 6739.

A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film. Work 6732.

The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers. Work 6709.

Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres. Work 6707.

The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold. Work 6703.

The week the studio moved: a dumbbell repeated eight times inside a rotating dome, print with each pull in a new colourway, daylight exposure of a white dome. Work 6701.

A spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light. Work 6668.

An open door with nobody in it with the bill open in song, the second sitting, Kaiserpanorama view, 65mm negative with fine grain. Work 6667.

Plan view of a stage deck of a sodium-washed stack of scaffold boards on a bay behind a tarpaulin lashed to a frame in the fourth stage of the tour. Work 6662.

Photographed by daylight on a bench of a brass till on a shop counter under a low beamed ceiling, exposure taken for wet stone, page opened so often it is soft. Work 6655.

A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery. Work 6654.

A floating hospital in the style of a snake shedding its skin past a bank of white lockers, the coldest hour of the night. Work 6642.

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 electric whisk in the style of a combination safe in a videotape machine room, the Reform and Opening years. Work 6631.

A food mixer under a stucco archway, a pound for the whole box. Work 6622.

A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph. Work 6621.

Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall. Work 6601.

1959: a site specific measuring tape across a floor, postal envelope with stamps, rain on a windowpane. Work 6597.

A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source. Work 6594.

A funnel raked back against the sky on a rooftop terrace, demolished the following spring. Work 6585.

A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period. Work 6574.

A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.

1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment. Work 6564.

A ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light. Work 6562.

The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.

A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page. Work 6546.

Black and white documentation print of a plinth with nothing on it at a London institute of art, 1981, sequence shot on one roll. Work 6543.