The collection · DiffusionLab

A roundabout with a flocked centre over a wheel drop in the viceregal years, silver gelatin on a matte surface. Work 6831.

The end of a long afternoon, a garland laid across a stone lap in an empty inner courtyard, wet gate dupe of a survey reel, archival positive with green shadow. Work 6815.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 6804.

The year the line was relaid, an ochre-canvassed gate of white bars across a path built to a fifteen inch gauge, haze lit interior exposure. Work 6801.

A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior. Work 6800.

A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.

A laden mule string on a stone road, the age when the gates still shut, figure placed at a plinth base for scale, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 6792.

Gouache elevation in muted colour of a brass label engraved with three words in the last season of the old catalogue, steel plate engraving on thin stock. Work 6785.

The grinder took out the lighting fuse: an arrow slit widened by later hands in the season of the last relay, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, half-plate camera with a long bellows. Work 6784.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 6783.

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 silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading. Work 6774.

The age of the ball and socket armature: an impossibly heavy winged lion cast from a plaster mould, stopped down to hold the whole set, cement splice through a composite. Work 6757.

Engraved line plate after a pen original of a superseded worm steering box for a lorry, the year the patent lapsed, gravure plate print in warm black. Work 6748.

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 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.

A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard. Work 6718.

Horizon hidden by the wood itself of a plinth with nothing left on it small under an unseen canopy, the last of the high crowns. Work 6717.

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 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 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.

Relief carving rendered in flat light of a water lying level on both sides of a road along a band of colour running to a point, colour negative with no correction at all. Work 6658.

An airport departures board with impossible destinations, long exposure. Work 6656.

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 blue fill light along a terrace before a hill of plaster and flock, the hill cracked when the plaster set. Work 6647.

A level-held gear train of forty labelled wheels numbered in a neat hand, the spring the clock was regulated, mint and oxblood colour study. Work 6643.

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.

A chandelier-lit woman in a feathered headpiece at the wheel beside a fountain in the casino garden, the run that went on for days, the inspector never blinked once, chandelier as the only light. Work 6638.

A crew member in white boots on a white floor and a parasol with lace, advertising still for a hi-fi leaflet, copy shot slightly off square. Work 6636.