The collection · DiffusionLab

A grey-going staple row along a telephone pole peeled back to the layer beneath, the winter the paste froze, photograph of a photocopy on a wall. Work 8041.

The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign. Work 7905.

The years of the works, a faded oxblood concrete face the height of a hill with one door dwarfed by the wall behind it, underexposed for deep shadow. Work 7862.

A baseboard of chipboard on trestles in a forced perspective street, tape wear on a much shown reel, hobby library print with a stamped head, stopped right down for the whole street. Work 7845.

An iara in front of shadows cast on brick in the bossa nova years, matte painting with a hazed monolith, old glass corroded and pitted by rain. Work 7776.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7754.

A pit boots left by a doorstep with a snap tin on a prop, the year of nationalisation, picture magazine photo essay, platinum print of a pit yard. Work 7708.

Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate. Work 7647.

A sign-lit eel tank lit from below beside a courier machine with a cracked cheek panel, the decade the river stopped falling, documentary night market reportage. Work 7604.

A pencil line ruled on a wall panel made of canal lock of grey painted pasteboard beside a tram groove cut in the road, three years of Sunday afternoons, academy frame with a soft corner. Work 7580.

The years the shrine was tended, a cold-toned arch of dressed stone under branches with the light coming in level, museum case lit from one slot. Work 7485.

An approach road running straight at a wall, the era of the great slabs, long lens compression of a wall, muted colour transparency. Work 7433.

Registration soft on a painted backdrop of a painted backdrop of a village street with one button eye hanging by a stitch, two weeks in 1967. Work 7430.

A gantry walkway at hull height beside a window band curving away, oil pigment print on rag paper, heliogravure with a fine grain, diazo print with pale blue lines. Work 7352.

A tall-headed procession seen from a first floor window by a gas lamp over a loom, a cold morning with no wind, frontal composition with the line centred. Work 7297.

The Three Kingdoms period, a caving beside a magenta warning lamp, contact print of a whole roll, fifty copies dubbed over one weekend. Work 7281.

Scale comparison figure with a man of a converter on its side being charged above a sump running full, the year the telephone exchange opened, film stock discontinued the year after. Work 7254.

A pass road switchbacking eleven times outside an iron door studded in rows, nobody has climbed to the last tower. Work 7234.

A scorch-edged works plate on a splasher, the years nobody kept count, oil painting of a night yard, underexposed two stops for shadow. Work 7201.

The years of the sixty figures: full page miniature with a bar frame of a corbels holding a road over a drop under an arcade of slender columns. Work 7158.

Perspective set on the path's centre line of an avenue of trunks receding into gold haze with one ear sagging under the lamp, the third age of the great trunks. Work 7035.

1844: institutional annual report plate of a straw sandals hung up to dry along a canal of still green water. Work 7033.

The years the towers stood empty: a canopy pressing against a stone wall among fallen blocks, haze separated tower planes, neutral density in a hot courtyard. Work 7032.

A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore. Work 7014.

The belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

A crush of splintered props along a street of thumbed clay houses, the teatime slot of 1970. Work 6871.

70mm widescreen film still of a crew member with the helmet on and nobody near underneath a lit white walkway, the fourth crew rotation, sharp corner-to-corner resolution. Work 6847.

The stall had a new owner by morning: long lens compression down a lane of a wire-tangled steam plume crossing a sign's beam, the market years after the flood laws. Work 6841.

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.

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.