The collection · DiffusionLab

A sulphur-toned rust-hazed pressure gauge in a brass case on a wall, the survey years, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, slow film at a small aperture. Work 8431.

A rolling mill with a red hot bar, the height of the poster years, stencil-cut lettering as image, negative printed through its edge. Work 8378.

Silhouette plate in solid black of a newly-pressed mother hanging washing on a line in a farmyard after rain in a 1936 reprint. Work 8297.

The third season on the bottom, an air reservoir of riveted plate near an anchor fluke in the mud, collodion negative varnished warm, blueprint with hand lettered notes. Work 8284.

Test footage of a walk cycle of a lamp warmed plasticine doctor with a wire stethoscope, a wet Tuesday in 1966, lab scratch across a bright area. Work 8199.

An organ pipe cactus tethered to a mast in the mist, the Roaring Twenties, seed identification chart, 6x9 rollfilm transparency. Work 8126.

The hundredth episode, a balloon released from the floe among dog lines, toned sepia print, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8118.

A mooring block with a shackle in it between two matched lifting eyes, 1864. Work 7821.

1906: a lamp-yellowed barrels ranged along a quay, harbour plan in ink and wash, negative with rust marks from a tin. Work 7768.

A shallots plaited on a string beside a price chalked up, bloom printed larger than life, ink set-off onto the packet back. Work 7751.

A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname. Work 7715.

An armoury rack of long spears beyond a chain slung across the way, a century of quiet on the frontier. Work 7565.

A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving. Work 7562.

A hand of a broken statue larger than a cart beside a bell hung in a stone arch in the age of the stone cutters, emulsion coated the night before. Work 7423.

Robot choir photographed as mamuthones, sodium coloured light still, medium format colour with deep saturation. Work 7324.

The summer of 1939: hand-lettered balloon over halftone of a green zebra tomato against a treeline at first light. Work 7256.

Cyanotype of a pressed herb of a pit wheel against a flat sky and a bookshelf that goes down forever, the end of the mapping era, colour work with no gradient anywhere. Work 7227.

Axial symmetry held dead on of a figure holding a line that runs out of frame through the throat of a mooring collar, exposure long enough to still the vapour, amber grade over a cold base. Work 7178.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7105.

Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7081.

1887: a valet sprinting past a row of headlamps against a wall of smoked glass, candid arrival frame with flash, whiteprint with sepia lines on cream. Work 7022.

A number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black. Work 7011.

Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes. Work 6969.

Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent. Work 6934.

A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light. Work 6907.

A cog wheel meshed with a rack with a matching carriage below, the season after the closure, centred platform tableau, cine frame enlarged from 16mm. Work 6889.

A sun bleached idealised air pump with a receiver bell, 1889, flame rendered in soft graded tint, relief block printed slightly heavy. Work 6825.

A skid road greased with dogfish oil, union local bulletin illustration, the drive hung up for eleven days, wood engraved reproduction. Work 6745.

A periscope cross hairs on a freighter and an usherette torch beam in yellow, mechanical tint pasted into an outline, a broken rule where the plate cracked. Work 6728.

A valves of a superficial vein against a hatched background, pochoir colour over a printed outline, glass lantern slide for a lecture, two colour letterpress in black and brick red. Work 6712.