The collection · DiffusionLab

Tableau of crew in matched pairs of a grand salon behind a single oval viewport outside a lit oval viewport, the second season under the ice, oil on panel with glazed shadows. Work 8216.

Telephoto compression along a mill of an ore bridge over a stockyard, whole plate view camera negative, dry plate exposed by furnace light. Work 8215.

A pyramid set piece in gold paint on a stoop built in a studio in the gatefold years, ink and dye on coated board. Work 8201.

A trackside hut of mint boards, flat even light with no sun, the timetable ran on two trains a day, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 8200.

A damp-stained doorway half filled with quiet water, the long wet age, volumetric shaft through interior haze, whole plate negative squared to a facade. Work 8197.

The last summer before the road, a pink-marbled kitchen pass hung with copper pans stencilled with a stores number, haze filled lobby held perfectly level. Work 8190.

Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative. Work 8188.

A sunset-backlit man in a pale pink shirt at a game of dominoes across a yard churned into mud, the decade the standpipe arrived, architectural section through a shaft. Work 8182.

Day-glo lettering over a night sky of a twin-cam wind machine lifting nine capes, a session in 1975, spot gloss varnish on a logo. Work 8181.

A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8171.

Archival copy of a fragile plate of yucca stalks on a dark slope over a range of bare hills, 1897, blueprint of a dome section. Work 8160.

The year the smog line rose again: model tower lit with fibre optics of a flyer climbing between two towers among aisles of indicator lights. Work 8158.

A sunken court with a single stair out in a drug store room at the back, speed camera photograph, Kodachrome dense shadows. Work 8157.

Backlit crowd rimmed in white of a forty steps cut into bedrock beneath a sky flat and white, the age when a well was the town, scratch along one sprocket edge. Work 8156.

An Art Deco villa behind a parapet worn round by rain in the year the pirate radio stopped, Rose Parade float, hand-tinted monochrome print. Work 8155.

Luggage label illustration style of a clerk pair matched like a mirror at the centre of a numbered yard, watercolour wash over ruled ink, warm ochre grade on colour stock. Work 8154.

Dotted illustration with no grey in it of a man walking away down a hallway in the hundredth issue, two flats meeting with a white gap. Work 8147.

A hall of cabinets vanishing into haze, the week of the inspection, hand tinted plate in mint and pink, colour negative printed slightly cool. Work 8146.

A stage brace propped behind a flat before a painted village street, his nose was a bottle top all along. Work 8144.

A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side. Work 8138.

Rows of figures moving in step under a single work lamp, halftone screen coarse enough to count, offset ghosting from the next sheet, contact print from a glass negative. Work 8128.

A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky. Work 8125.

Postal view of a hotel front of a folded square stamp box of pale enamel against a facade of dusty pink stucco in the season before the survey. Work 8124.

A bootleg cord panel of numbered jacks under an ad screen three storeys tall, the era of the licensed face, the fountain had been dry for years, low angle from a polished floor. Work 8122.

A black slab standing upright on a plain alongside a wall running out of sight in after the last team went home, raking light on a featureless face, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 8121.

1776: shallow depth on a carved stone face of a numbered compartment door with a handle inside the engine space. Work 8119.

The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer. Work 8116.

A Swahili doorway photographed as a sky lobby, low angle hero shot of a tower, wide angle at 28mm on the terrace. Work 8107.

A magenta-hazed temple gate with a carved face under a canopy pressing on a wall, the last of the wet months, the smoke would not leave the gallery, unhurried held composition. Work 8102.

A pagoda above a lake of flat water above a coastline seen from the air, three colour jobbing work, scanned from a linen-backed sheet, progressive proof of the reds alone. Work 8100.